Gemini 2.0 Flash

Gemini 2.0 Flash was released December 11, 2024 as the first Gemini 2.0 model. Despite being a Flash-tier model, it outperformed 1.5 Pro on most benchmarks (89.7% MMLU). Introduced native tool use, multimodal generation (images and audio output), and agentic capabilities. Priced at \$0.10/\$0.40 per million tokens.