Using Gemini 1.5 Flash on Google AI Studio

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Google AI Studio and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Google AI Studio SDK or REST API to call gemini-1.5-flash — see the documentation for request format.

Code Examples

import os
from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key=os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"])
response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-1.5-flash",
    contents="Hello"
)
print(response.text)

About Google AI Studio

Google AI Studio is a model prototyping environment and API access point for Gemini models, offering an inference playground for developers to test and build AI applications.

Pricing on Google AI Studio

Capabilities

About Gemini 1.5 Flash

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. Additionally, it features an extensive context window of up to 1 million tokens, allowing it to manage large information volumes effectively 456.