gemini-2.0-flash — Deprecated

Quick fix — copy & paste

Choose your language. The "before" block matches the deprecated call; the "after" block is the drop-in replacement.

model = genai.GenerativeModel("gemini-2.0-flash")
response = model.generate_content("Hello")

model = genai.GenerativeModel("gemini-2.5-flash")
response = model.generate_content("Hello")

const model = genAI.getGenerativeModel({ model: "gemini-2.0-flash" });
const result = await model.generateContent("Hello");

const model = genAI.getGenerativeModel({ model: "gemini-2.5-flash" });
const result = await model.generateContent("Hello");

models/gemini-2.0-flash:generateContent

models/gemini-2.5-flash:generateContent

Error messages

Seeing one of these? You're in the right place.

• model_not_found: gemini-2.0-flash
• Gemini 2.0 Flash is deprecated

Replacement options

• gemini-2.5-flash Compare token cost →

Other Gemini deprecations

• gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview 2026-05-25 · 17d
• gemini-2.0-flash-001 2026-06-01 · 24d
• gemini-2.0-flash-lite 2026-06-01 · 24d
• gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001 2026-06-01 · 24d
• imagen-4.0-generate-001 2026-06-24 · 47d

What this means for your code

gemini-2.0-flash is a general-purpose chat model used through the standard messages or chat completions endpoint. Most production traffic on chat models comes from streaming responses, function calling, and tool use. After the shutdown date, every API call returns an error and your app breaks for end users until the model id is updated.

Gemini has scheduled gemini-2.0-flash for shutdown on 2026-06-01. That gives you 24 days to migrate. Until then the model still works, but every API call after that date will return a model_not_found error.

Find every call in your codebase

Before you change anything, locate every place the deprecated model id is referenced. Search source files, environment files, feature flags, and config repos. Use these commands from your project root:

grep -rn '"gemini-2.0-flash"' --include="*.py" .

grep -rn '"gemini-2.0-flash"' --include="*.{js,ts,tsx,jsx}" .

grep -rn "gemini-2.0-flash" .

Migration checklist

Steps in order. Skip any that don't apply, but read the whole list — for chat models, the non-obvious steps are usually the ones that break in production.

1. 1. Search for the deprecated model id in your application code, environment variables, and feature flags
2. 2. Update the model id in your API client configuration
3. 3. Re-run integration tests that exercise streaming, function calling, and structured outputs
4. 4. If you use prompt caching, verify the new model supports the same cache scopes
5. 5. Compare token costs on a representative sample of prompts before deploying