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
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
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.
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 |
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.
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Migration checks
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Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI