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Gemini 1.5 Pro

Enterprise workhorse foundation model with 2M context window, high-fidelity recall, and audio/video understanding.

Released: Feb 15, 2024
Last Verified: Aug 10, 2026
Context Window

2,000k

Tokens

Max Output

8.192k

Output limit

Architecture

Multimodal MoE

Model family

Parameters

Not Disclosed

Total / Active

Input Token Cost

$1.25

Per 1M tokens

Output Token Cost

$5.00

Per 1M tokens

Model Overview

Gemini 1.5 Pro features a 2,000,000 token context window with near-perfect needle-in-a-haystack retrieval (>99.7%). Widely deployed across enterprise document search, audio transcription, and multimodal understanding.

Developer Implementation Notes

Supports context caching for massive cost reductions when querying static 2M token context repositories.

Key Strengths

  • 2M token context window with proven 99%+ retrieval accuracy
  • Audio and video native parsing without separate transcription pipeline
  • Context caching discount up to 75%

Limitations & Boundaries

  • Pricing increases on prompts longer than 128k tokens ($1.25 -> $2.50 / MTok)
  • Moderate inference latency on ultra-long contexts

Capabilities & Modalities

Modalities:text, image, audio, video
Reasoning Chains:No
Tool / Function Calling:Supported
Structured Outputs:Supported
Fine-Tuning:Supported
Local Deployment:Cloud Only

Best Production Use Cases

  • Long-form legal case discovery and contract synthesis
  • Multi-hour meeting recording extraction and minutes generation
  • Enterprise repository indexing

Verified Benchmark Results

Standardized evaluations with methodology notes and authoritative citation links.

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Official benchmark results are currently being verified for this model release.

Pricing & Inference Cost Calculator

Token Cost Estimator – Gemini 1.5 Pro

Calculate projected inference spend with prompt caching

Quick Workload Presets

Input Tokens / Req2,000
100100k200k
Output Tokens / Req500
5016k32k
Number of Requests1,000
125k50k
Cache Hit Rate0%
0% (No cache)50%90% (Max)
Total Input Spend

$2.5000

2.00M input tokens

Total Output Spend

$2.5000

0.50M output tokens

Estimated Total Cost

$5.00

Avg: $0.00500 / req

Rates: $1.25 in / $5.00 out per million tokens (Google AI Studio)Last verified: Aug 10, 2026

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