Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is worth evaluating for long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context
- 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 1.5
- Released
- 2024-10-03
- Context
- 1m
- Parameters
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-08
- Specialization
- general
- Training
- finetuned
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI
About
Lightweight 8B variant of Gemini 1.5 Flash optimized for speed and cost-efficiency. Supports 1M token context with fast inference for real-time applications.
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is a model in the Gemini 1.5 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 $0.0375 input and $0.15 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B yet.
Top use-case fit
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals 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 | $0.0375 | $0.150 | Serverless |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Long context
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Migration checks
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