Med-Gemini vs MedGemma: Which One Can You Use?
Google Med-Gemini explained — status as of October 2026
Med-Gemini is a family of Gemini models that Google Research and Google DeepMind fine-tuned for medicine and described in research papers in 2024. It was never released: there is no Med-Gemini download, API or app, and Google says it is not a product available for commercial use. The similarly named MedGemma is different — an open model family released in 2025 that anyone can download.
- Developer
- Google Research & Google DeepMind
- Public access
- Not available (research only)
- What it does
- Medical Q&A, imaging, long records
- Papers
- April–May 2024
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Is Med-Gemini available? How to access it
No. Med-Gemini has not been released. Google has published papers and benchmark results, but there is no Med-Gemini model to download, no API on Google Cloud, and no consumer app.
- Google's announcement states that Med-Gemini is not a product offering available for commercial use; organizations could only express interest in research partnerships.
- Google has not published any new Med-Gemini paper or release since 2024. Its openly available medical models since then are MedGemma (2025) and MedGemma 1.5 (January 2026).
- Med-Gemini is not a mode of the Gemini app. Asking Gemini health questions uses the general Gemini model, not Med-Gemini.
- If you searched for "Med-Gemini download" or "Med-Gemini API", what you are most likely looking for is MedGemma.
What you can use instead today
MedGemma
Google's open-weight medical models (4B multimodal, 27B), available to download from Hugging Face.
Explore MedGemmaKey Med-Gemini results
As reported in Google's 2024 papers (not independently reproduced, since the models were not released)
| Benchmark | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| MedQA (USMLE-style questions) | 91.1% accuracy, 4.6 points above Med-PaLM 2 | arXiv 2404.18416 |
| 14 medical benchmarks | New state of the art on 10 of 14 | arXiv 2404.18416 |
| 7 multimodal benchmarks vs GPT-4V (e.g. NEJM Image Challenge) | Average relative margin of 44.5% | arXiv 2404.18416 |
| 3D CT report generation (Med-Gemini-3D) | 53% of generated reports judged clinically acceptable | arXiv 2405.03162 |
Benchmark scores measure exam-style and research tasks; they do not show that a model is safe for clinical use.
Med-Gemini vs MedGemma at a glance
Similar names, very different availability
| Med-Gemini | MedGemma | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Research models fine-tuned from Gemini | Open models built on Gemma 3 |
| First published | April 2024 (papers) | May 2025 (model release) |
| Can you download it? | No | Yes — weights on Hugging Face after accepting Google's terms |
| API | None | Self-host, or deploy via Google Cloud Vertex AI Model Garden |
| Images | Yes, in research (X-rays, pathology, 3D CT) | Yes — 4B multimodal and 27B multimodal variants |
| Can you try it on Dr7? | No | No; Dr7 offers its own assistant |
Med-Gemini timeline
Apr 2024
Google publishes "Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine", introducing Med-Gemini.
May 2024
A second paper adds Med-Gemini-2D, Med-Gemini-3D and Med-Gemini-Polygenic; Google's blog says it is not a commercial product.
May 2025
Google releases MedGemma as open models — the medical AI developers can actually use.
Jan 2026
MedGemma 1.5 4B is released. No new Med-Gemini release has been announced.
Med-Gemini FAQ
Short, sourced answers
Is Med-Gemini available?
No. As of October 2026 Med-Gemini is still a research model family. Google has not released it as a download, API or app, and states it is not a product available for commercial use.
Is Med-Gemini free?
There is nothing to use, free or paid, because Med-Gemini was never released. MedGemma, Google's open medical model, can be downloaded at no cost under Google's Health AI Developer Foundations terms.
What is the difference between Med-Gemini and MedGemma?
Med-Gemini (2024) is a set of research models fine-tuned from Google's Gemini and described only in papers. MedGemma (2025) is a family of open models based on Gemma 3 that developers can download, run and fine-tune.
Is there a Med-Gemini API or download?
No. There is no Med-Gemini API on Google Cloud and no downloadable weights. Developers who want a Google medical model typically use MedGemma, which is on Hugging Face and in Vertex AI Model Garden.
How accurate is Med-Gemini?
In Google's 2024 paper the best Med-Gemini model scored 91.1% on MedQA (USMLE-style questions) and set a new state of the art on 10 of 14 medical benchmarks. These are Google's own results and could not be checked independently.
Is Dr7.ai affiliated with Google?
No. Dr7.ai is independent and is not affiliated with Google. The chat on this page does not run Med-Gemini; it is Dr7's own medical AI assistant, for educational use only.
Sources
- arXiv 2404.18416: Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine (2024)
- arXiv 2405.03162: Advancing Multimodal Medical Capabilities of Gemini (2024)
- Google Research blog: Advancing medical AI with Med-Gemini
- Google Health AI Developer Foundations: MedGemma
- Hugging Face: google/medgemma-1.5-4b-it
Dr7.ai is not affiliated with Google. Med-Gemini and MedGemma are Google names, used only to describe them. Information is current as of October 2026. Dr7's AI chat is for education only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.