Gemini API · Model retirement
gemini-2.0-flash-exp
Stopped working
Calls to the model gemini-2.0-flash-exp on Gemini API stopped working on December 9, 2025.
What to use instead of gemini-2.0-flash-exp
Move to gemini-3.6-flash or gemini-nano-banana-2.1. Our suggestion, not Google's: the shutdown notice names no successor. gemini-3.6-flash is what Google names for the stable gemini-2.0-flash.
gemini-3.6-flash outputs text only: image generation and audio output are not supported, so code that asked this model for images (response modalities including IMAGE) has to call an image model instead.
Facts
- API
- Gemini API
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gemini-2.0-flash-exp- Kind
- Model retirement
- Announced
- November 4, 2025
- Takes effect
- December 9, 2025
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- models.dev
- Last updated
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