By Maria Deutscher
Publication Date: 2026-11-12 01:22:00
Google LLC today launched Gemini Decisions API, an artificial intelligence service designed to answer user questions in a cost-efficient manner.
It’s powered by a new AI model called Gemini Decision 1.
Traditional large language models are designed to answer a broad range of prompts. Gemini Decision 1 has a much narrower focus: it can process just three types of questions. The upside is that it answers those questions at a significantly lower cost. According to Google, the model is nearly five times cheaper than its entry-level Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite LLM.
Gemini Decision 1 can answer yes-no questions, multiple choice questions and prompts that ask it to rate an item on a user-specified scale. A cybersecurity team, for example, could ask the model to rate the severity of an antivirus alert on a scale of 1 to 10.
Gemini Decision 1 prompts include two items: the user’s questions and the dataset to which those questions pertain. The dataset can include up to 256,000 tokens worth of…