# siglip2-base-patch16-224 by Google: Open-Weight Model Source: https://savrn.com/models/siglip2-base-patch16-224 Markdown alternate of the page above; the site index is https://savrn.com/llms.txt --- ## Runs On What it takes to serve siglip2-base-patch16-224 (375M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them. | Precision | Weights | Memory needed | Cheapest setup | Per hour | Also fits | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 16-bit | 0.8 GB | 0.9 GB | 1x [MI300X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi300x) (192 GB) Vultr | $1.85 | [1x H100](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/h100) $1.99 · [1x MI325X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi325x) $2.00 | | 8-bit | 0.4 GB | 0.5 GB | 1x [MI300X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi300x) (192 GB) Vultr | $1.85 | [1x H100](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/h100) $1.99 · [1x MI325X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi325x) $2.00 | | 4-bit | 0.2 GB | 0.2 GB | 1x [MI300X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi300x) (192 GB) Vultr | $1.85 | [1x H100](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/h100) $1.99 · [1x MI325X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi325x) $2.00 | Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the [SAVRN Index](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus), read Oct 24, 2026. [siglip2-base-patch16-224 on every accelerator the SAVRN Index prices, at every precision](https://savrn.com/models/siglip2-base-patch16-224/gpus) ## SAVRN's Notes on siglip2-base-patch16-224 Hand it an image and a list of candidate labels and it scores them; Google also names image-text retrieval and vision-encoder duty inside a VLM. At 375M parameters, siglip2-base-patch16-224 needs 0.9 GB at 16-bit and 0.2 GB at 4-bit, so the cheapest card in our Index, one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour, would sit nearly idle serving it alone. We would keep it at 16-bit on a card already doing other work. Apache 2.0 permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, includes an express patent grant, and asks you to keep the license and NOTICE file and state significant changes, so fine-tuning is within bounds. No context length appears here because it is not a language model. The 1.5 GB of safetensors is open access, and three papers describe the recipe; read the SigLIP 2 paper before deciding. SAVRN Research, 2026-09-18 ## Model Card By Google, published under apache-2.0, revision 75de2d55ec2d. ### SigLIP 2 Base [SigLIP 2](https://savrn.com/papers/siglip-2-multilingual-vision-language-encoders-with-improved-semantic-understanding-locali) extends the pretraining objective of [SigLIP](https://savrn.com/papers/sigmoid-loss-for-language-image-pre-training) with prior, independently developed techniques into a unified recipe, for improved semantic understanding, localization, and dense features. ### Intended uses You can use the raw model for tasks like zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval, or as a vision encoder for VLMs (and other vision tasks). Here is how to use this model to perform zero-shot image classification: ``` from transformers import pipeline # load pipeline ckpt = "google/siglip2-base-patch16-224" image_classifier = pipeline(model=ckpt, task="zero-shot-image-classification") # load image and candidate labels url = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg" candidate_labels = ["2 cats", "a plane", "a remote"] # run inference outputs = image_classifier(image, candidate_labels) print(outputs) ``` You can encode an image using the Vision Tower like so: [Read the full model card (307 words)](https://savrn.com/models/siglip2-base-patch16-224/card) ## Configuration Vocabulary size 256,000 Model type siglip ## Identity and Version Repository google/siglip2-base-patch16-224 Publisher Google Task Zero shot image classification Modality Other Library transformers Parameters 375M parameters Languages Not stated by the source Revision 75de2d55ec2d0b4efc50b3e9ad70dba96a7b2fa2 First published 2025-02-17 Last updated 2025-02-21 ## Files and Weights 9 files, 1.5 GB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 1.5 GB in safetensors. Weights1 file · 1.5 GB Configuration3 files · 1.3 KB Tokenizer3 files · 38.7 MB Documentation1 file · 3.4 KB Repository1 file · 1.6 KB Every file | File | Type | Size | SHA-256 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | model.safetensors | Weights | 1.5 GB | 612923381c76 | | config.json | Configuration | 253 B | — | | preprocessor_config.json | Configuration | 394 B | — | | special_tokens_map.json | Configuration | 636 B | — | | README.md | Documentation | 3.4 KB | — | | .gitattributes | Repository | 1.6 KB | — | | tokenizer.json | Tokenizer | 34.4 MB | cb9140fae3ac | | tokenizer.model | Tokenizer | 4.2 MB | 61a7b147390c | | tokenizer_config.json | Tokenizer | 47.2 KB | — | ## License and Download License apache-2.0 Access Open weights, no gate Download size 1.5 GB [Download from Google](https://huggingface.co/google/siglip2-base-patch16-224) Released by Google through its official repository on Hugging Face. [Read the license](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). ## Built From - Described by [arXiv:2209.06794](https://savrn.com/papers/pali-a-jointly-scaled-multilingual-language-image-model) - Described by [arXiv:2303.15343](https://savrn.com/papers/sigmoid-loss-for-language-image-pre-training) - Described by [arXiv:2502.14786](https://savrn.com/papers/siglip-2-multilingual-vision-language-encoders-with-improved-semantic-understanding-locali) ## Memory Requirements | Precision | Weights in memory | | --- | --- | | As published | 1.5 GB | | 16-bit | 0.8 GB | | 8-bit | 0.4 GB | | 4-bit | 0.2 GB | Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this. ## Built on This Model - Derived from[Gender-Classifier-Mini](https://savrn.com/models/gender-classifier-mini) ## Compare siglip2-base-patch16-224 - [siglip2-base-patch16-224 vs siglip2-base-patch16-256](https://savrn.com/models/compare/siglip2-base-patch16-224-vs-siglip2-base-patch16-256) - [CLIP-ViT-B-32-laion2B-s34B-b79K vs siglip2-base-patch16-224](https://savrn.com/models/compare/clip-vit-b-32-laion2b-s34b-b79k-vs-siglip2-base-patch16-224) - [CLIP-ViT-L-14-laion2B-s32B-b82K vs siglip2-base-patch16-224](https://savrn.com/models/compare/clip-vit-l-14-laion2b-s32b-b82k-vs-siglip2-base-patch16-224) ## Questions About siglip2-base-patch16-224 ### How much GPU memory does siglip2-base-patch16-224 need? About 0.9 GB at 16-bit and 0.2 GB at 4-bit: the weights (375M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more. ### What is the cheapest GPU to run siglip2-base-patch16-224 on? At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists. ### Can I use siglip2-base-patch16-224 commercially? Yes. siglip2-base-patch16-224 is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors. ## Similar Models Model · Zero shot image classification ### [siglip2-base-patch16-256](https://savrn.com/models/siglip2-base-patch16-256) [Google](https://savrn.com/model-publishers/google) SigLIP 2 extends the pretraining objective of SigLIP with prior, independently developed techniques into a unified recipe, for improved semantic understanding, localization, and dense features. You can use the raw model for tasks like zero-shot image classification and image-text retrieval, or as a vision encoder for VLMs (and other vision tasks). Here is how to use this model to perform zero-shot image classification: You can encode an image using the Vision Tower like so: For more code examples, we refer to the siglip documentation. 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