whatmodel.sh / Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001)

Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001) is a closed-weights language model from Google, released October 2024. Licence: proprietary.

Catalogue identity notes

Comparison model from the Epoch AI internal-evaluation CSVs (Epoch release date 2024-10-03). Stable API version gemini-1.5-flash-8b-001. Gemini API changelog, September 29, 2025: gemini-1.5-flash-8b shut down.

48.1±1.9comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 5 benchmark results across 3 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001), out of 828 with a score, then more from Google.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
452Code Millenials 34B Bud Ecosystem48±1local~23GB2024-01
453Reka Core (2024-05-01) Reka AI48±1comparison only2024-05
454Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001) Google48±2comparison only2024-10
455T5 Large Google48±9local~4.6GB2019-10
456WaveCoder-Ultra-6.7B Microsoft48±1local~5.8GB2024-04
more from Google
9Gemini 4 Argon (limited preview) Google82±1limited preview2026-09
23Gemini 3.8 Flash Google77±1api $1.50/M2026-09
32Gemini 3.7 Flash Google76±1api $1.50/M2026-08

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$ what it's good at

chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▆█▇▇▇▃ #317 of 463 * · 31% of its score · 1 test

Beats Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512, Ministral 3 14B, Phi-4 14B here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Flan-T5 XXL, LFM2 1.2B, Granite 4.0 H 1B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena (text)1258.8 ✎▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 95/379avg 1268▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 31%blunt
math▁▂▃▅▇▅▅█▄▁▁▁ #320 of 462 * · 7.1% of its score · 1 test

Beats Molmo 2 8B, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Instruct (0724), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct here, though they rank higher overall. Trails DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B, Granite 8B Code Base (4K), Mixtral 8x7B v0.1 (base) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
OTIS mock AIME 2024–20254.6% ✎▃▃▄▃▃▃▇▇█▃▂▅ beats 30/193very hard · avg 8.5%▇▇▇ 7.1%sharp · too hard for it · noisy
vision & documents▁▁▃▃▃▃▅▄▇▇█▃ #146 of 182 * · 22% of its score · 1 test

Beats DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp), Gemma 3 12B, Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Qwen3.5 2B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena vision (style controlled)1071.3 ✎▁▁▂▂▂▃▄▅▅▆██ beats 25/145avg 1068▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 22%blunt
other tests2 not in a task · 38% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GPQA Diamond33.0% ✎▁▁▁▁▃▄▆▄▅▇█▅ beats 22/208hard · avg 40%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 31%sharp
Open PT-LLM Leaderboard average (9 Portuguese tasks)75.4% ✎▃▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂█▅▁ beats 228/276medium · avg 73%▇▇▇ 6.9%at its level · noisy

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$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 53%, Epoch AI — internal evaluatio… 39%, Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboa… 7%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
LMArena leaderboard dataset2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 53%CC BY 4.0
Epoch AI — internal evaluations2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 39%CC BY 4.0
Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboard (archived)1▇▇ 7%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 2%
weighted average= 48.1

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