Google: Gemma 2 9B alternatives
Ranked by capability overlap, similar context window, and similar price tier. Cross-vendor options are weighted higher than same-provider alternatives.
See also: Google: Gemma 2 9B model details · Gemma family · Google provider page
Top 15 alternatives
| # | Model | Provider | Why | Context | Input price / 1M | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | Meta | similar price tier · similar context window | 16K Short/standard context | $0.02 Budget | vs → |
| 2 | Meta: Llama 3 8B Instruct | Meta | similar price tier · similar context window | 8K Short/standard context | $0.03 Budget | vs → |
| 3 | Mistral: Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1 | Mistral AI | similar price tier · similar context window | 3K Short/standard context | $0.11 Budget | vs → |
| 4 | Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B | Baidu | similar price tier · similar context window | 30K Short/standard context | $0.14 Budget | vs → |
| 5 | MythoMax 13B | Gryphe | similar price tier · similar context window | 4K Short/standard context | $0.06 Budget | vs → |
| 6 | Microsoft: Phi 4 | Microsoft | similar price tier · similar context window | 16K Short/standard context | $0.07 Budget | vs → |
| 7 | NousResearch: Hermes 2 Pro - Llama-3 8B | Nousresearch | similar price tier · similar context window | 8K Short/standard context | $0.14 Budget | vs → |
| 8 | Reka Edge | Reka | similar price tier · similar context window | 16K Short/standard context | $0.10 Budget | vs → |
| 9 | Sao10K: Llama 3 8B Lunaris | Sao10k | similar price tier · similar context window | 8K Short/standard context | $0.04 Budget | vs → |
| 10 | ReMM SLERP 13B | Undi95 | similar price tier · similar context window | 6K Short/standard context | $0.45 Budget | vs → |
| 11 | Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku | Anthropic | similar price tier · different provider | 200K Long context (128K+) | $0.25 Budget | vs → |
| 12 | Cohere: Command R (08-2024) | Cohere | similar price tier · different provider | 128K Long context (128K+) | $0.15 Budget | vs → |
| 13 | Cohere: Command R7B (12-2024) | Cohere | similar price tier · different provider | 128K Long context (128K+) | $0.04 Budget | vs → |
| 14 | DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) | DeepSeek | similar price tier · different provider | 164K Long context (128K+) | $0.32 Budget | vs → |
| 15 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 | DeepSeek | similar price tier · different provider | 164K Long context (128K+) | $0.20 Budget | vs → |