Flan-T5 3B XL is Google's language model with a 8K context window and up to 8K output tokens, starting at $0.6 / 1M input and $0.6 / 1M output. 3B-parameter XL variant of Flan-T5, an instruction-tuned T5 model excelling at zero-shot and few-shot text-to-text generation tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDgoogle-flan-t5-3b-xl
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Providers
Context Window8K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters3B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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watsonx/google/flan-t5-xl-3b
$0.6$0.6

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Flan-T5 3B XL, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 7 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

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Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hrwestus2
g4ad.xlargeAWSRadeon Pro V5208 GB$0.379/hrus-east-1
g5g.xlargeAWST4g16 GB$0.420/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run Flan-T5 3B XL
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Flan-T5 3B XL8K$0.600$0.600Current
Flan-T5 BaseAvailable
Flan-T5 Base SAMSumAvailable
Flan-T5 LargeAvailable
Flan-T5 SmallAvailable
Flan-T5 XLAvailable
Flan-T5 XXLAvailable

Model IDs

google-flan-t5-3b-xl
watsonx/google/flan-t5-xl-3b