Activefastmultimodal Proprietary

Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B

by Google· Released October 2024· Cutoff September 2024

Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is a smaller, faster, and more cost-efficient variant of the Gemini 1.5 Flash model, optimized for high-volume, low-latency tasks. It retains multimodal capabilities (text, image, audio, video) and a 1M token context window, making it ideal for applications requiring quick responses and reduced computational cost.

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Input cost

$0.0375 per 1M tokens

Output cost

$0.15 per 1M tokens

Context window

1M tokens

Max output

8192 tokens

Modalities

textimageaudiovideo

Parameters

License

proprietary

Capabilities

Multimodal understanding (text, image, audio, video)Function CallingCode GenerationStreamingJSON ModeLong context window (1M tokens)

Best For

High-volume, latency-sensitive applications requiring multimodal understanding at low cost.

Strengths

Extremely fast inference speed
Low cost per token
Supports up to 1M token context window
Multimodal input (text, image, audio, video)
Good performance on reasoning and coding tasks for its size

Limitations

Smaller model size may result in lower accuracy on complex tasks compared to larger models
Limited to 8B parameters, less capable than Gemini 1.5 Pro
May not handle highly nuanced or creative tasks as well as larger models
Output limited to 8192 tokens

Use Cases

Real-time chatbots and virtual assistants

High-volume content moderation

Quick document summarization and analysis

Image and video captioning at scale

Audio transcription and summarization

Code generation and debugging in interactive environments

Data extraction from large documents

Improvements Over Previous Model

Introduced as a smaller, faster, cheaper variant of Gemini 1.5 Flash
Approximately 2x faster inference than Gemini 1.5 Flash
Pricing reduced by ~75% compared to Gemini 1.5 Flash
Maintains same 1M token context window as Gemini 1.5 Flash
Optimized for high-throughput, low-latency applications

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