Multimodal Embedding is Google's embedding model with a 2K context window, starting at $0.8 / 1M input. A multimodal embedding model that encodes both text and images into a shared vector space for cross-modal retrieval and similarity tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDgoogle-multimodal-embedding
TypeEmbedding
StatusDeprecating
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Providers
Context Window2K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesEmbedding
Embedding Dimensions768
Deprecation Date

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding✓
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
Image In
$ / image
Video In
$ / sec
Google Vertex AI logo
Google Vertex AI
multimodalembedding
$0.000200
/ 1K chars
$0.000100$0.000500

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
GigaChat Embeddings 9.3B—4K——Available
Embed 5 Fast128K$0.080—Deprecating
Embed 5 Pro128K$0.120—Deprecating
Text Embedding 52K$0.025—Deprecating
Embed 5 Fast Image——$0.400—Available
Embed 5 Fast Text——$0.080—Available
Embed 5 Pro Image——$0.500—Available
Embed 5 Pro Text——$0.120—Available
Voyage 432K$0.060—Available
Voyage 4 Large32K$0.120—Available
Multimodal Embedding—2K$0.800—Current

Model IDs

google-multimodal-embedding
multimodalembedding
multimodalembedding@001
publishers/google/models/multimodalembedding