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Gemini 2.0 Flash
Cheapest production-grade multimodal model — great for high-volume pipelines.
At a glance
| Provider | |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-12 |
| Tier | fast / cheap |
| License | Closed / proprietary |
| Modalities | text, image, audio, video |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 8.192k tokens |
| API price · input | $0.10 / 1M tokens |
| API price · output | $0.40 / 1M tokens |
Benchmark performance
How Gemini 2.0 Flash stacks up against the current leader (GPT-5) and the median model in the leaderboard:
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash | GPT-5 | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatbot Arena Elo | 1310 | 1410 | 1320 |
| MMLU-Pro | 76.4 | 86.8 | 78.0 |
| GPQA Diamond | 62.1 | 87.3 | 65.0 |
| MATH | 83.5 | 96.7 | 78.3 |
| HumanEval | 89.0 | 95.1 | 92.0 |
| SWE-Bench Verified | 35.0 | 74.9 | 49.0 |
Numbers compiled from provider technical reports and Chatbot Arena. See methodology for the composite-score formula.
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What does Gemini 2.0 Flash cost in practice?
API pricing is $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens. Assuming a 50/50 input/output split, here is what that looks like at three workload sizes:
| Volume | Per day | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M tokens/day | $0.25 | $7.50 | $91.25 |
| 10M tokens/day | $2.50 | $75.00 | $912.50 |
| 100M tokens/day | $25.00 | $750.00 | $9,125 |
Strengths & weaknesses
Where it shines
No clear top-tier strengths — this is a mid-pack model.
Where it lags
- SWE-Bench: 35.0 (rank #18 of 18, below average)
- Arena: 1310 (rank #18 of 27, mid-pack)
- HumanEval: 89.0 (rank #18 of 30, mid-pack)
Best alternatives
The closest models to Gemini 2.0 Flash by tier and benchmark score:
| Model | Score | $ in / out | Context | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4o mini OpenAI |
61.3 | $0.15 / $0.60 | 128k | Try → · vs Gemini |
| o3-mini OpenAI |
72.7 | $1.10 / $4.40 | 200k | Try → · vs Gemini |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash |
73.3 | $0.30 / $2.50 | 1M | Try → · vs Gemini |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic |
56.2 | $0.80 / $4.00 | 200k | Try → · vs Gemini |
| GPT-5 mini OpenAI |
77.0 | $0.25 / $2.00 | 400k | Try → · vs Gemini |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash a good model?
Gemini 2.0 Flash scores 65.6 on the llmrank.top composite (rank #22 of 30). It trails the frontier — for top performance, look at GPT-5 (86.0). Whether it's the right fit depends on your workload — see the use-case discussion on this page.
How much does Gemini 2.0 Flash cost?
Gemini 2.0 Flash is priced at $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.40 per 1M output tokens (USD). For a 10M-token-per-day workload split 50/50, that works out to roughly $2.50/day or $912.50/year.
What is Gemini 2.0 Flash's context window?
1M tokens. That is large enough to ingest entire codebases or full books in one prompt.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash open source?
No — it is a closed (proprietary) model accessed only via the provider API.
What is Gemini 2.0 Flash's SWE-Bench score?
Gemini 2.0 Flash scores 35.0% on SWE-Bench Verified — the benchmark that measures real-world GitHub issue resolution. Its Chatbot Arena Elo is 1310.
What are the best alternatives to Gemini 2.0 Flash?
Closest alternatives by tier and score: GPT-4o mini, o3-mini, Gemini 2.5 Flash. See the alternatives section on this page for side-by-side numbers.
Related: GPT-4o mini · o3-mini · Gemini 2.5 Flash · Full leaderboard
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