GoogleProprietaryMultimodalVisionSmall Models
Gemini Flash
Google’s fast, cost-efficient Gemini tier for high-throughput chat, classification, and multimodal apps where latency matters.
Vision · Audio · Tool calling · Coding
Last reviewed: 24 July 2026
Overview
Google’s fast, cost-efficient Gemini tier for high-throughput chat, classification, and multimodal apps where latency matters.
Capabilities
- Vision: Yes
- Audio: Yes
- Tool calling: Yes
- Thinking: No
- MCP: No
- Coding: Yes
- Structured output: Yes
Technical specifications
- Provider
- License
- Proprietary
- Context window
- 1M
- Release
- 2025
- Modalities
- Text, Image, Audio
- Vision
- Yes
- Audio
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Thinking
- No
- MCP
- No
- Open weights
- No
- API
- Yes
- Pricing (input)
- Lower-cost Gemini tier
- Pricing (output)
- Lower-cost Gemini tier
Supported modalities
Text · Image · Audio
Context window
1M (1,000,000 tokens)
Pricing
Input: Lower-cost Gemini tier
Output: Lower-cost Gemini tier
Availability
API: Yes
Chat UI: Yes
Open weights: No
Use cases
- High-volume customer support
- Realtime multimodal classification
- Cost-sensitive RAG generation
- Mobile / edge-adjacent latency budgets
Strengths
- Low latency and cost
- Strong enough for many production tasks
- Large context relative to price
Limitations
- Weaker than Pro on hardest reasoning
- Closed weights
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