Chat Bison
Chat Bison is a released classification and json / tool use model; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating classification and json / tool use
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Palm 2
- Released
- 2023-12-06
- Context
- 8k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
Chat Bison, a large language model from Google, is adept at multi-turn conversations, excelling in language understanding and generation for interactive applications. Although details about its architecture are limited, it is based on Google's PaLM 2 framework and trained on extensive text and code datasets. This model is proficient in various language tasks, including code and text generation, editing, and problem-solving, and is particularly well-suited for multilingual content and handling synonymous inquiries in FAQ systems. Accessible via Google's Vertex AI platform, users should note the scheduled decommissioning of the PaLM API, including Chat Bison, and consider transitioning to the Gemini API.
Chat Bison is a proprietary model in the Palm 2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through GCP Vertex AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.5 input and $0.5 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Chat Bison yet.
Top use-case fit
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Available via routers & gateways(13)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Chat Bison?
Chat Bison has a context window of 8k tokens.
How much does Chat Bison cost?
Chat Bison is available at $0.50/1M input tokens through GCP Vertex AI.
When was Chat Bison released?
Chat Bison was released on 2023-12-06.
Which providers offer Chat Bison?
Chat Bison is available from 1 provider: GCP Vertex AI.
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.