# Gemini Embedding 2

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Gemini Embedding 2 and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for embedding text, images, audio, video and PDFs in one vector space, with a generous free tier. Critics say it gets expensive at scale.

## Why people recommend it

- Embeds text, images, audio, video, PDFs (3 comments): "the first model that natively embeds text, images, audio, video, and PDFs into the same vector space" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437429)) "we index files (text, images, audio, video) into a shared embedding space using gemini-embedding-2" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590617)) "It can creates embeddings on pretty much any type of format, video, audio, documents." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328980))
- Generous free tier (2 comments): "gemini's free tier is pretty generous" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723695)) "they have a great free tier" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232262))

## What people warn about

- Expensive at scale (2 comments): "a bit expensive right now so it's not as practical at scale" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505572)) "continuous indexing would be pretty expensive now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507205))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [EmbeddingGemma](https://hackerapproved.com/p/embeddinggemma-2.md): 27 recommend
- [Ternlight](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ternlight.md): 17 recommend
- [CLIP by OpenAI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/clip.md): 10 recommend
- [Qwen3-Embedding](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen3-embedding-0-6b.md): 8 recommend
- [ModernBERT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/modernbert.md): 7 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://ai.google.dev/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Gemini Embedding 2", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini-embedding-2/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).