# 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

Buried here: `gemini-1.5-flash-001`, `gemini-1.5-flash-002`

## The record

- Provider: Google
- Model id: `gemini-1.5-flash-001`
- Cause of death: Superseded
- Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
- Succeeded by: [Gemini 2.0 Flash](https://models.rip/gemini-2.0-flash/epitaph) (this archive's reading of lineage, not the provider's migration guidance)

## Sources

- https://web.archive.org/web/20250514231416/https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/models/gemini/1-5-flash
- https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-gemma-developer-updates-may-2024/

## Elsewhere

- [Stand at this grave](https://models.rip/gemini-1.5-flash)
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