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Google DeepMind

Gemini 2.0 Flash

Released Dec 11, 2024 · knowledge cutoff 2024-08

Status
Superseded
Location
United States / United Kingdom
Type
LLM
Modality
Multimodal
Context window
1M
Max output
8K
Speed
—
Price ($/MTok in / out)
$0.10 / $0.40
Cost per task
—
Open weights
No
Benchmarks5 of 10 reported

MMLU-Proretired

77.6%

GPQA Diamond

62.1%

SWE-bench Verified

51.8%

Humanity's Last Exam

6.6%

LMArena Elo

1356

SWE-bench Pro

—

Terminal-Bench 2.1

—

AIME (latest)retired

—

GDPval-AA v2

—

ARC-AGI-2

—
Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Fast enough to feel instant inside a user-facing product
  • Calls tools and generates images natively rather than through a separate pipeline
  • Cheap enough to run across an entire corpus instead of a sample

Weaknesses

  • Falls apart on multi-step reasoning — fine for extraction, not for analysis
  • Follows complex formatting instructions unreliably

Included as the price-performance outlier of its generation. SWE-bench Verified 51.8 is Google-reported using an agentic code-execution harness.

For developers

API model strings

  • googlegemini-2.0-flash
  • googlegemini-2.0-flash-001

Licence

Proprietary — weights not released

Retirement

No retirement announced

Lineage

No recorded predecessor

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