# gemini-2.0-flash-exp

Calls to the model gemini-2.0-flash-exp stopped working on December 9, 2025.

## The error Gemini API returns once gemini-2.0-flash-exp is gone

Once it is closed to new API keys: HTTP 404

```json
{"error":{"code":404,"message":"This model models/gemini-2.0-flash-exp is no longer available to new users. Please update your code to use a newer model for the latest features and improvements.","status":"NOT_FOUND"}}
```

Once it is shut down: HTTP 404

```json
{"error":{"code":404,"message":"models/gemini-2.0-flash-exp is not found for API version v1beta, or is not supported for generateContent. Call ModelService.ListModels to see the list of available models and their supported methods.","status":"NOT_FOUND"}}
```

## What to use instead

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.

- API: Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
- Model: gemini-2.0-flash-exp
- Kind: Model retirement
- Announced: November 4, 2025
- Takes effect: December 9, 2025
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model gemini-2.0-flash-exp`
- Source: [models.dev](https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/models.json?provider=google)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Gemini API's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/gemini-api/gemini-2.0-flash-exp/

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent