Gemini 2.0 Flash
Gemini 2.0 Flash is a legacy integration reference; evaluate Gemini 3.8 Flash before starting new work.
- Family
- Gemini 2.0
- Released
- 2025-01-30
- Lifecycle
- Retired June 1, 2026
- Context
- 2M
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-04
- Specialization
- vision
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- Gemini Terms of ServiceRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
No tracked provider pricing is available yet.
No tracked provider pricing is available yet.
This model is deprecated. Google DeepMind recommends switching to Gemini 3.8 Flash.
About
Google Gemini 2.0 Flash is deprecated and scheduled to shut down on June 1, 2026. Use a newer Gemini model such as Gemini 3.5 Flash for current integrations; official Gemini API pricing still lists $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M text, image, or video tokens before batch discounts.
Providers
No active provider routes are tracked for this model.
Deprecated provider routes(4)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | Deprecated | google/gemini-2.0-flash-001 |
| Google AI Studio | DeprecatedRetired June 1, 2026 | gemini-2.0-flash |
| GCP Vertex AI | DeprecatedRetired June 1, 2026 | gemini-2.0-flash |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Deprecated | google/gemini-2.0-flash |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
Benchmark scores(3)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77.9 | —Observed 2026-04-14 | — | ||
| 1172.0 | vision_style_control overall 2026-10-19 (style control, default view)Observed 2026-10-26 | Configuration: Gemini 2.0 Flash (001) Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: LMArena vision style control leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-19 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @9761a3ce, latest split; live page https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/vision showed the same 2026-10-19 snapshot). Board entry 'Gemini 2.0 Flash (001)': rank 109, Arena Score 1172.0 (95% CI 1164.8-1179.3), 10135 votes. Versioned arena label mapped to catalog slug gemini-2-0-flash (label date equals the model's release checkpoint). Retrieved 2026-10-26. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 | |
| 1339.0 | text creative_writing 2026-10-22Observed 2026-10-22 | Configuration: Gemini 2.0 Flash (001) Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: LMArena Text arena, Creative Writing category (no style control), board published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, text config, latest split). Board entry 'Gemini 2.0 Flash (001)' (category creative_writing in text/latest-00000-of-00001.parquet): rank 182 of 416, rating 1339.2 (95% CI 1331.5-1346.9), 6275 votes. LLM Reference model is lifecycle-deprecated; score kept as historical. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.