Google Opens Gemini 2.0 to Everyone: Flash, Flash-Lite, and Pro

Google opened access to its Gemini 2.0 model family in February 2025, making the new lineup available to everyone via the Gemini app and API. The release includes three variants: Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.

Gemini 2.0 Flash is the main workhorse—faster and more capable than 1.5 Flash, with a 1 million token context window, native tool use, and multimodal input. CNBC reported it at 10 cents per million input tokens. Flash-Lite is the cost-optimized option, at 0.75 cents per million tokens in published pricing, aimed at high-volume text use. Flash-Lite entered general availability for production by late February 2025. Pro Experimental is aimed at coding and complex reasoning and is available to Gemini Advanced subscribers in the app.

What Changed From 1.5

Google simplified pricing to a single rate per input type and removed the old split between short and long context. The 2.0 Flash models beat 1.5 Flash on multiple benchmarks while often costing less. Developers can use the models through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Who Gets What

Free and paid users get the new Flash model in the Gemini app. Developers and businesses can build on Flash and Flash-Lite via API. Pro Experimental remains in the experimental tier for Advanced subscribers. The rollout is part of Google's push toward agentic AI—models that can run multistep tasks on a user's behalf—with features like Gemini Agent for Ultra subscribers handling tasks such as inbox management and travel booking.

What's Next

Google continues to ship Gemini 3 and deeper reasoning features for Ultra. Broader availability of 2.0 gives developers and consumers a clearer, cheaper path to the latest Gemini models.