Gemini 1.5 Flash
Gemini 1.5 Flash is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.
- Family
- Gemini 1.5
- Released
- 2024-05-14
- Context
- 1M
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-05
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI
About
Gemini 1.5 Flash is a large language AI model by Google, crafted for speed and efficiency in high-volume scenarios 145. As a lightweight model, it's optimized for fast processing and cost-effectiveness, making it ideal for real-time applications and high-frequency tasks 567. With its multimodal capabilities, Gemini 1.5 Flash effectively processes and reasons across multiple data types, including text, images, audio, video, and PDFs 145. Despite its smaller size compared to Gemini 1.5 Pro, it excels in tasks like summarization, chat applications, and data extraction from lengthy documents, employing "knowledge distillation" to transfer essential knowledge from larger models 5.
Providers(1)
Compare API pricing across 1 tracked provider route for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.075 | $0.300 | Serverless |
Deprecated provider routes(1)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio | Deprecated | — |
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
Benchmark scores(1)
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI