Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Preview

Preview endpoint for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite; Google lists both the undated alias and the dated -02-05 snapshot. Google marks already-shut-down models with a gray row on the deprecations table ("Already-shutdown models are indicated with gray backgrounds"), and this row is gray, so status is retired. Google states the listed shutdown dates are "the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired". Not priced on the current pricing page, so token prices are null rather than guessed from the surviving family member. Google's current models page publishes no input/output token limits for this endpoint (read 2026-08-19), so context_window and max_output_tokens are null rather than carried over from a page that no longer states them. Lifecycle read first-party from Google's deprecations table on 2026-08-19. REPLACEMENT RE-POINTED 2026-10-20: the deprecations table now names gemini-3.1-flash-lite as the recommended replacement; until the 2026-10-19 read it named gemini-2.5-flash-lite, which on the same 2026-10-20 read lost its own shutdown date and replacement (Google states the 2.5 models are not deprecated). Google does not date the edit (page: Last updated 2026-10-20 UTC). The row stays gray; nothing else in it moved.

Source: Google official documentation ↗

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