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comes with:</p><p data-block-key="a89hg"></p><ul><li data-block-key="fik80">50% lower price (compared to 1.5 Flash)</li></ul><p data-block-key="dat"></p><ul><li data-block-key="behcc">2x higher rate limits (compared to 1.5 Flash)</li></ul><p data-block-key="eu7qs"></p><ul><li data-block-key="686a2">Lower latency on small prompts (compared to 1.5 Flash)</li></ul><p data-block-key="2nk3"><br/>Developers can access <b>gemini-1.5-flash-8b</b> for free via <a href="https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/new_chat?model=gemini-1.5-flash-8b-002">Google AI Studio</a> and the <a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini">Gemini API</a>.</p><h3 data-block-key="5e44f"><b><br/>Our lightweight model, smaller and faster</b></h3><p data-block-key="7d7su">At I/O, we announced Gemini 1.5 Flash, our lightweight model, optimized for speed and efficiency. 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