Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)
gemini-1.5-flash-001
2024-05-24 — 2025-05-24 · lived 11 months
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.
- Provider
- Cause of death
- Superseded
- Context
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Succeeded by
- Gemini 2.0 Flash
“Succeeded by” is this site’s reading of model lineage, not the provider’s official migration guidance.