Skip to content
Model infoModelsSnapshot: 15 Oct 2026

Google / PaLM 2 for Chat

PaLM 2 Chat Bison 001

Historical PaLM 2 hosted chat release, with original version identifiers and dated evidence.

retiredClosed weightsText generation
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 14 Oct 2026
9 of 20 specification fields collected
Input token limitNot collectedAwaiting source review
Maximum outputNot collectedAwaiting source review
Input billingNot collectedGoogle Vertex AI (historical)
Output billingNot collectedNo inferred price

Specifications

Provider-documented facts. “Not collected” means we have not verified that field yet, not that the feature is unsupported.

Input token limit
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Maximum output
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Context caching
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Reasoning
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Tool calling
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Structured output
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Streaming
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Batch processing
SupportedSource for Batch processing (opens in a new tab)

SDK explicitly describes these RLHF allowlist models as supporting both online and batch prediction.

Fine-tuning
SupportedSource for Fine-tuning (opens in a new tab)

Exact identifiers appear in the SDK RLHF allowlist; historical support only.

Parameters
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Architecture
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Knowledge cutoff
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Languages
Not collected

Exact historical model-version evidence has not been collected; no current replacement value is inferred.

Base model
PaLM 2 hosted model familySource for Base model (opens in a new tab)

No exact parameter count or underlying checkpoint equivalence is established.

API compatibility
ChatModel.from_pretrained("chat-bison@001") with start_chat context/examples and send_message.Source for API compatibility (opens in a new tab)

Retained SDK example, not a live service check.

Training context length
RLHF tuning configuration: prompt sequence up to 8,192 tokens (default 512), target up to 1,024 (default 64).Source for Training context length (opens in a new tab)

These are training sequence settings, not model inference context or output limits.

Access & pricing

Prices belong to an endpoint and billing tier. A provider listing does not guarantee access for every account or region.

Google Vertex AI (historical)

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
chat-bison@001
Access
Retired/discontinued model family or release; selector retained for historical identification.
Regions
Exact historical region coverage not established

Endpoint pricing has not been collected. Check the provider for applicable rates.

Data & enterprise terms

Retention, training use, regional processing and enterprise terms have not been summarized for this endpoint.

Caching

Caching can reuse earlier input processing. Availability, lifetime and billing depend on the endpoint. A cache hit still generates a new response.

01 / INITIAL INPUTProcess & retain

The system processes eligible input and retains reusable state.

02 / LATER REQUESTCheck available state

Reuse depends on matching input, session state and the cache policy.

03 / CACHE HITReuse & generate

Reusing state can reduce repeated work. Any charges follow the billing rules below.

Google Vertex AI (historical)

chat-bison@001
Not verified

No verified historical caching policy; contemporary Gemini caching does not apply automatically.

How it works
Not collected

No verified historical caching policy; contemporary Gemini caching does not apply automatically.

Minimum reusable input
Not collected

No verified historical caching policy; contemporary Gemini caching does not apply automatically.

Lifetime & refresh
Not collected

No verified historical caching policy; contemporary Gemini caching does not apply automatically.

How to enable it
Not collected

No verified historical caching policy; contemporary Gemini caching does not apply automatically.

Usage fields
Not collected

No verified historical caching policy; contemporary Gemini caching does not apply automatically.

Billing rules
Not collected

No verified historical caching policy; contemporary Gemini caching does not apply automatically.

Limits & data boundaries
Not collected

No verified historical caching policy; contemporary Gemini caching does not apply automatically.

No verified cache rate for this endpoint. An empty rate is not a zero charge.

Caching reviewed 14 Oct 2026

What the measurements say

No benchmark observations have been added for this model. We do not turn a vendor description into a performance score.

Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.

The record behind the model

Why it is included

Google documents this proprietary hosted model or version through original release notes and SDK identifiers. No public weights are supplied in the reviewed evidence. Exact architecture, model size and equivalence across versions are not inferred from the client SDK license.

Classification evidence (opens in a new tab)

Lifecycle dates

Named release announcement10 May 2023Source (opens in a new tab)
Enterprise family retirement (all unqualified family access)21 Apr 2025Source (opens in a new tab)
Context instruction-following update15 Jun 2023Source (opens in a new tab)
Supervised tuning GA3 Nov 2023Source (opens in a new tab)

Sources reviewed