gemma
10B parameters
Commercial OK
Multimodal
Reviewed October 2026

PaliGemma 2 10B

Mid-tier PaliGemma 2 fine-tuning base. Better baseline for complex vision tasks.

License: Gemma License·Released Dec 5, 2024·Context: 8,192 tokens

Overview

Mid-tier PaliGemma 2 fine-tuning base. Better baseline for complex vision tasks.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Parent / base model
PaliGemma 2 3B3B
Consumer
Family siblings (paligemma-2)
PaliGemma 2 3B3B
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Strengths

  • Strong fine-tuning base

Weaknesses

  • Same base-only caveat as 3B

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
BF1620.0 GB24 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/google/paligemma2-10b-pt-224

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of PaliGemma 2 10B.

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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run PaliGemma 2 10B?

24GB of VRAM is enough to run PaliGemma 2 10B at the BF16 quantization (file size 20.0 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use PaliGemma 2 10B commercially?

Yes — PaliGemma 2 10B ships under the Gemma License, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of PaliGemma 2 10B?

PaliGemma 2 10B supports a context window of 8,192 tokens (about 8K).

Does PaliGemma 2 10B support images?

Yes — PaliGemma 2 10B is multimodal and accepts text + vision inputs. Vision support requires a runner that handles its image-conditioning architecture.

Source: huggingface.co/google/paligemma2-10b-pt-224

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