Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is now production ready- Google Developers Blog

Introduces Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, a production-ready variant of the Gemini 1.5 Flash model. This new variant offers 50% lower pricing, 2x higher rate limits (4,000 RPM), and lower latency on small prompts compared to the previous 1.5 Flash model. It is optimized for tasks like chat, transcription, and long context language translation, and is accessible via Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. The post details the pricing structure and highlights the model's suitability for high-volume multimodal use cases and long context summarization.