> Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is a closed AI model from Google, released 19 Dec 2024.

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# Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

Google

Released 19 Dec 2024

Closed

Reasoning

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-thinking-vs-deepseek-v3/) [Announcement](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog)

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Index score

Not yet evaluated independently

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Core tests taken

no independent results yet

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Versus the frontier at release

Replaced by [Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (Jan 2025)](https://themodelindex.org/models/gemini-2-0-flash-thinking-jan-2025/)

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Price per million tokens

no public API price found

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Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

Not plotted: no index score yet.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledge

no evidence yet

GPQA Diamond

no result

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

no evidence yet

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

no evidence yet

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

Not on any of the rankings we follow yet.

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Replaced by Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (Jan 2025); it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

Gemini

app · subscription

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Google AI Studio

API

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Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

19 Dec 2024

Announcement

[ai.google.dev ↗](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog)

Release entry

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (exp)

Scored as

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Artificial Analysis index

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Output speed

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Hugging Face

closed weights

## Google releases · around this one

Gemma 2

Open

27 JUN 2024

index 97

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Dec 2024)

Closed

11 DEC 2024

index 121

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

Closed

19 DEC 2024

Gemini 2.0 Flash

Closed

5 FEB 2025

index 121

Gemini 2.0 Pro

Closed

5 FEB 2025

index 121

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/gemini-2-0-flash-thinking/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01