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Gemma 2 9B IT is an instruction-tuned version of Google's Gemma 2 9B base model.
Updated Aug 12, 2026. Default version: Gemma 2 9B
Technical details for the model's default version.
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Benchmark scores for Gemma 2 9B.
| ARC-E | 88.0% | 02 | 8 | 85.7% | C | |
| BIG-Bench | 68.2% | 03 | 3 | 0.0% | C | |
| Natural Questions | 29.2% | 03 | 7 | 66.7% | C | |
| BoolQ | 84.2% | 04 | 10 | 66.7% | C | |
| PIQA | 81.7% | 04 | 11 | 70.0% | C | |
| Social IQa | 53.4% | 05 | 9 | 50.0% | C | |
| AGIEval | 52.8% | 06 | 10 | 44.4% | C | |
| TriviaQA | 76.6% | 08 | 18 | 58.8% | C | |
| Winogrande | 80.6% | 11 | 22 | 52.4% | C | |
| HellaSwag | 81.9% | 17 | 27 | 38.5% | C | |
| ARC-C | 68.4% | 25 | 34 | 27.3% | C | |
| MBPP | 52.4% | 32 | 33 | 3.1% | C | |
| GSM8k | 68.6% | 45 | 48 | 6.4% | C | |
| HumanEval | 40.2% | 65 | 66 | 1.5% | C | |
| MATH | 36.6% | 68 | 71 | 4.3% | C | |
| MMLU | 71.3% | 80 | 100 | 20.2% | C |
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
| text style control | overall | 273 | 1280.2 | 10,072 | N/A | |
| text | overall | 275 | 1227.2 | 10,072 | N/A | |
| text style control | overall | 283 | 1266.8 | 54,611 | N/A | |
| text | overall | 286 | 1207.5 | 54,611 | N/A |
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Gemma 2 9B. Runtime does not affect the capability score.
No provider-specific speed or latency record is linked to the default version yet.
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
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Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
| Gemma 2 9B | 0.0 | 9.2B | N/A | N/A | No | Gemma |
Key information about Gemma 2 9B and its available data.
Gemma 2 9B IT is an instruction-tuned version of Google's Gemma 2 9B base model. It was trained on 8 trillion tokens of web data, code, and math content. The model features sliding window attention, logit soft-capping, and knowledge distillation techniques.
It's optimized for dialogue applications through supervised fine-tuning, distillation, RLHF, and model merging using WARP.
Data as of 2026-08-11.
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Common questions about Gemma 2 9B.
Gemma 2 9B's default version was released on Jun 27, 2024.
No official standard PAYG price is currently available for Gemma 2 9B.
Gemma 2 9B was created by Google.
A context window is not available for the default version.
No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.
No provider offering is currently linked to the default version.
Nearby ranked alternatives include Gemma 3 4B, Qwen2.5 Coder 7B, Grok 1.5.