diff --git a/go/plugins/googleai/googleai.go b/go/plugins/googleai/googleai.go
index 3dbcc59b7..93ba44977 100644
--- a/go/plugins/googleai/googleai.go
+++ b/go/plugins/googleai/googleai.go
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/firebase/genkit/go/ai"
 	"github.com/firebase/genkit/go/internal"
+	"github.com/firebase/genkit/go/plugins/internal/gemini"
 	"github.com/firebase/genkit/go/plugins/internal/uri"
 	"github.com/google/generative-ai-go/genai"
 	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
@@ -41,24 +42,10 @@ var state struct {
 }
 
 var (
-	basicText = ai.ModelCapabilities{
-		Multiturn:  true,
-		Tools:      true,
-		SystemRole: true,
-		Media:      false,
-	}
-
-	multimodal = ai.ModelCapabilities{
-		Multiturn:  true,
-		Tools:      true,
-		SystemRole: true,
-		Media:      true,
-	}
-
 	knownCaps = map[string]ai.ModelCapabilities{
-		"gemini-1.0-pro":   basicText,
-		"gemini-1.5-pro":   multimodal,
-		"gemini-1.5-flash": multimodal,
+		"gemini-1.0-pro":   gemini.BasicText,
+		"gemini-1.5-pro":   gemini.Multimodal,
+		"gemini-1.5-flash": gemini.Multimodal,
 	}
 
 	knownEmbedders = []string{"text-embedding-004", "embedding-001"}
diff --git a/go/plugins/internal/gemini/gemini.go b/go/plugins/internal/gemini/gemini.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9ede1b8f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go/plugins/internal/gemini/gemini.go
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+// Copyright 2024 Google LLC
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// Package gemini contains code that is common to both the googleai and vertexai plugins.
+// Most most cannot be shared in this way because the import paths are different.
+package gemini
+
+import "github.com/firebase/genkit/go/ai"
+
+var (
+	// BasicText describes model capabilities for text-only Gemini models.
+	BasicText = ai.ModelCapabilities{
+		Multiturn:  true,
+		Tools:      true,
+		SystemRole: true,
+		Media:      false,
+	}
+
+	//  Multimodal describes model capabilities for multimodal Gemini models.
+	Multimodal = ai.ModelCapabilities{
+		Multiturn:  true,
+		Tools:      true,
+		SystemRole: true,
+		Media:      true,
+	}
+)
diff --git a/go/plugins/vertexai/vertexai.go b/go/plugins/vertexai/vertexai.go
index 93a2988d5..00072aae9 100644
--- a/go/plugins/vertexai/vertexai.go
+++ b/go/plugins/vertexai/vertexai.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"cloud.google.com/go/vertexai/genai"
 	"github.com/firebase/genkit/go/ai"
 	"github.com/firebase/genkit/go/internal"
+	"github.com/firebase/genkit/go/plugins/internal/gemini"
 	"github.com/firebase/genkit/go/plugins/internal/uri"
 	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
 	"google.golang.org/api/option"
@@ -33,24 +34,10 @@ import (
 const provider = "vertexai"
 
 var (
-	basicText = ai.ModelCapabilities{
-		Multiturn:  true,
-		Tools:      true,
-		SystemRole: true,
-		Media:      false,
-	}
-
-	multimodal = ai.ModelCapabilities{
-		Multiturn:  true,
-		Tools:      true,
-		SystemRole: true,
-		Media:      true,
-	}
-
 	knownCaps = map[string]ai.ModelCapabilities{
-		"gemini-1.0-pro":   basicText,
-		"gemini-1.5-pro":   multimodal,
-		"gemini-1.5-flash": multimodal,
+		"gemini-1.0-pro":   gemini.BasicText,
+		"gemini-1.5-pro":   gemini.Multimodal,
+		"gemini-1.5-flash": gemini.Multimodal,
 	}
 
 	knownEmbedders = []string{