LLM Reference

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Released
2024-10-03
Last refreshed
2026-06-15
Status
Researched 60d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalLong context

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
Specifications
Released
2024-10-03
Context
1m
Parameters
8B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2024-08
Specialization
general
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.150
Input / 1M
$0.0375

Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI

Providers(1)
GCP Vertex AI
View 1 provider route
Links
Website

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 proprietary 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.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
GCP Vertex AI$0.0375$0.150
Serverless

Available via routers & gateways(13)

LiteLLM

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Open-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.

Free OSSGCP Vertex AI

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified 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.

PassthroughGCP Vertex AI

Portkey

Gateway

Production 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.

SubscriptionGCP Vertex AI

AIRouter

Router

Commercial 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.

Passthrough + feeGCP Vertex AI

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-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.

SubscriptionGCP Vertex AI

Kong AI Gateway

Gateway

Multi-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.

SubscriptionGCP Vertex AI

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Long context

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 Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has a context window of 1m tokens.

How much does Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B cost?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is available at $0.0375/1M input tokens through GCP Vertex AI.

When was Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B released?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B was released on 2024-10-03.

Which providers offer Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is available from 1 provider: GCP Vertex AI.