Modelo multimodal ultra asequible y veloz de Google, diseñado para cargas de trabajo masivas y análisis de audio y video de largo contexto.
Technical Specifications
- Provider
- Category
- lightweight
- Release Date
- 2024-10
- Batch API Discount
- 50% off async batch
- Consumer Subscription
- API Pay-as-you-go
- Reasoning Effort Control
- Fixed
- Structured Outputs
- Yes
- Output Modalities
- text
- Official Documentation
- Visit Official Docs ↗
Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance
Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs
- Official API Model ID (SDK String)
- models/gemini-1-5-flash-8b
- Supported SDK & API Protocol
- Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK
- Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
- Legacy Stable (Upgrade path available in Google lineup)
- Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
- 10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM
- Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
- Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens
- Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
- Implicit + Explicit Context Caching at $0.01/1M with configurable TTL
- Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
- Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
- MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
- Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
- Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
- Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox
- Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
- Vertex AI Supervised Adapter Tuning & Context Distillation
- Multimodal Tokenization Billing
- Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec)
- Weights Precision & Quantization
- Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster)
- Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
- Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
- Supported Inference Engines
- Managed Google Cloud API
- System Card & Safety Framework
- Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified
- Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
- SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration
Pay-as-you-go API is cheaper for this volume (saves $16.32/mo vs $20 flat plan).
Break-even point: ~2,721 requests/day equals $20/month.
Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models
Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter
Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.
Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator
Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B:
Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar
- SWE-bench Verified
- 24.5%
- GPQA Diamond
- 38.2%
- MMLU-Pro
- 58.6%
- HumanEval
- 76.2%
- Humanity's Last Exam
- 3.5%
- Terminal-Bench
- 16.5%
- SciCode
- 17.8%
- LiveCodeBench
- 31.4%
- AIME
- 34.5%
- Long-Context Reasoning
- 69.2%
- Chatbot Arena Elo
- 1220pts
Strengths
- Precio de entrada increíblemente bajo: solo $0.0375 por millón de tokens
- Ventana de contexto de 1M de tokens para procesar horas de video o audio
- Velocidad de generación vertiginosa (160+ tokens/segundo)
- Nivel gratuito muy generoso en Google AI Studio
Limitations & Trade-offs
- Menor capacidad de codificación de software compleja
- Memoria fáctica más condensada debido al tamaño de 8B
Editorial Assessment
La ventana de un millón de tokens más económica de toda la industria de la IA.
Best for: Ingestión multimodal a gran escala, resumen de videos y clasificación en tiempo real
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Frequently Asked Questions about Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
How much does the Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B API cost per 1M tokens?+
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B by Google is priced at $0.0375 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.01 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.
Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B pay-as-you-go API?+
A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.
How many words and pages fit in Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B's context window?+
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B features a 1.0M tokens context window, which equals approximately 786,432 English words or ~2,097 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 8,192 tokens.
Can I run Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+
No, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is a proprietary closed-weights model hosted by Google. It cannot be downloaded for local GPU execution and must be accessed via Google's official API or cloud platform.
Does Google train on data sent to the Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B API, and is commercial use allowed?+
API payloads are excluded from model training by default. License tier: Proprietary Commercial API (Google Terms). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Google AI Studio API, Google Cloud Vertex AI.
How does Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 37/100, scoring 24.5% on SWE-bench Verified, 38.2% on GPQA Diamond, 58.6% on MMLU-Pro, and 1220 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.
What is Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B best used for?+
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is best suited for: Ingestión multimodal a gran escala, resumen de videos y clasificación en tiempo real. Assessment: La ventana de un millón de tokens más económica de toda la industria de la IA.
Google Family Lineage, Routing Tiers & Upgrade Path
Step down to a lighter sibling for high-volume routing or step up to Google's flagship reasoning tier:
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AI Glossary & Architecture Concepts
View full glossary →Key machine learning concepts and benchmarks relevant to Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B:
La unidad básica de texto que procesa un modelo de lenguaje, que normalmente equivale a 3 o 4 caracteres o aproximadamente 0,75 palabras. Por ejemplo, una frase típica se divide en varios tokens.
Un conjunto estandarizado de pruebas para evaluar y comparar objetivamente las capacidades de distintos modelos de IA en tareas como programación (SWE-bench) o matemáticas avanzadas (AIME).
La cantidad máxima de tokens que un modelo puede considerar a la vez, incluyendo tanto la entrada que lee como la salida que genera. Una ventana de 1.000.000 de tokens puede procesar unas 750.000 palabras en una sola petición.
La capacidad de un modelo de detectar la necesidad de una función externa y emitir argumentos JSON estructurados para ejecutar API, búsquedas web o consultas a bases de datos.
Un protocolo abierto desarrollado por Anthropic que permite a los agentes de IA conectarse de forma estandarizada a sistemas de archivos locales, entornos de desarrollo y servicios externos.
Una optimización donde los proveedores almacenan estados de atención previos para prefijos de prompts frecuentes, reduciendo el coste de entrada hasta en un 90% y acelerando la respuesta.
Las puntuaciones de benchmarks, precios por token y límites de tasa evolucionan rápidamente. Verifique siempre las especificaciones actuales en la documentación oficial del proveedor.