Gemini 1.0 Ultra
Gemini 1.0 Ultra is worth evaluating for long context and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context and vision
- Workloads that can use a 1m context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Gemini 1.0
- Released
- 2023-12-13
- Context
- 1m
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI
About
Google's Gemini 1.0 Ultra is a leading large language model designed for tackling highly complex tasks with advanced analytical capabilities. As the largest model in the Gemini 1.0 family, it excels in coding, mathematical reasoning, and multimodal reasoning. Its strength lies in its ability to seamlessly understand and process diverse data types, including text, code, audio, images, and video. Gemini Ultra surpasses human experts on the MMLU benchmark with a 90% score, although it has limitations in image generation and some multimodal tasks. The model features a 32,000-token context window, less than some competitors, and access is primarily through a paid subscription or via Google Cloud for developers.
Gemini 1.0 Ultra is a proprietary model in the Gemini 1.0 family. The structured metadata tracks a 1m-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through GCP Vertex AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1 input and $3 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding 59.4.
Top use-case fit
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Vision
Q/$ C1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | $1.00 | $3.00 | Serverless |
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
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
Benchmark scores(1)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding | 59.4 | —Observed 2026-04-14 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Gemini 1.0 Ultra?
Gemini 1.0 Ultra has a context window of 1m tokens.
How much does Gemini 1.0 Ultra cost?
Gemini 1.0 Ultra is available at $1.00/1M input tokens through GCP Vertex AI.
When was Gemini 1.0 Ultra released?
Gemini 1.0 Ultra was released on 2023-12-13.
Which providers offer Gemini 1.0 Ultra?
Gemini 1.0 Ultra is available from 1 provider: GCP Vertex AI.
What benchmarks has Gemini 1.0 Ultra been tested on?
Gemini 1.0 Ultra has been evaluated on 1 benchmark, including Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding.
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI