# Gemini 1.5 Flash

> Gemini 1.5 Pro proved that a million-token window was possible; Flash was distilled out of it and proved the window could also be cheap, which is the half of the argument that changed what people actually built. The two share a release date and a retirement date, and only one of them was ever priced to be used at volume.

2024-05-24 — 2025-09-24 · lived 1 year, 4 months

This URL is the guided walk — the 3D cemetery, standing at this grave. The written record is at [Gemini 1.5 Flash's epitaph](https://models.rip/gemini-1.5-flash/epitaph).

## Elsewhere

- [The whole cemetery](https://models.rip/)
- [The dataset](https://models.rip/graveyard.json)