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Gemini 2.0 Flash Exp vs Gemini 3 Flash

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Gemini 2.0 Flash Exp is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.

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Gemini 2.0 Flash Exp vs Gemini 3 Flash Comparison Table

Evals updated August 20, 2026Pricing updated August 23, 2026

PropertyGemini 2.0 Flash ExpGemini 3 Flash
OrganizationGoogleGoogle
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateFeb 2025Dec 2025
Context Window1.0M1.0M
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.500
Output $/1M$3.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemo
OCRDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallDeprecated
74.9%
Avg cost / sample$0.0021
Avg speed / sample4.10s
By task
Object Detection
38.6%
$0.0031
Counting
67.6%
$0.0012
Identification
93.8%
$0.0009
OCR
87.6%
$0.0024
Data Extraction
96.9%
$0.0008
Reasoning (low)
64.9%
$0.0020
Reasoning (high)
74.2%
$0.0040

Gemini 2.0 Flash Exp vs Gemini 3 Flash: Overview

Gemini 2.0 Flash Exp

Gemini 2.0 Flash, released by Google DeepMind on February 5, 2025, is the efficiency-focused successor to Gemini 1.5 Flash. It is a multimodal model that accepts text, code, images, audio, and video as inputs, though its stable GA release outputs text only (image and audio generation remain in preview). The model supports up to 1 million tokens of input context with an output cap of ~8K tokens, making it well-suited for analyzing large documents, transcripts, or media files. Its knowledge is current through August 2024.

Flash 2.0 is optimized for speed, scalability, and agentic workflows, offering fast response times, tool use, structured outputs, and function calling. While more cost-efficient than Pro variants, its trade-offs include shorter output lengths and less depth on reasoning-intensive tasks. Available through the Gemini API, Vertex AI, AI Studio, and Gemini apps, Gemini 2.0 Flash is positioned for real-time applications, enterprise assistants, and production-scale multimodal processing where efficiency and throughput are priorities.

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash is a proprietary multimodal large language model developed by Google through Google DeepMind, designed to deliver fast, cost-efficient reasoning across real-time products and developer workflows. Released in December 2025, it is the Flash-tier variant of the Gemini 3 family, balancing low latency with reasoning quality approaching Pro models.

The model supports text, images, audio, and video, with an exceptionally large context window of roughly one million input tokens and outputs up to ~65k tokens. It emphasizes rapid responses for coding, summarization, analysis, and agentic tasks, and exposes configurable “thinking levels” via API to trade speed for deeper reasoning. Today, Gemini 3 Flash positions itself as a high-throughput, production-ready model, serving as the default in the Gemini app and Google Search’s AI Mode, optimized for scalable, interactive AI applications.