# Gemini 2.0 Flash

> For sixteen months this was what you got when you called Google's API without thinking hard about it: a million tokens of context, native tool use, and a price low enough that most projects never looked any further. Its retirement closed the whole 2.0 line in one day, taking with it the Flash-Lite that had arrived three weeks behind it.

2025-02-05 — 2026-06-01 · lived 1 year, 3 months

## The record

- Provider: Google
- Model id: `gemini-2.0-flash`
- Cause of death: Superseded

## Sources

- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations
- https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/model-versioning

## Elsewhere

- [Stand at this grave](https://models.rip/gemini-2.0-flash)
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