Google's fast, cheap, multimodal model — native image, audio, and tool use at low latency.
Gemini 2.0 Flash is Google's workhorse multimodal model: it takes text, images, and audio as input, holds a million tokens of context, and returns answers in well under a second — at a price that makes high-volume use practical.
Who it's for: Builders running high-volume or multimodal workloads who need low latency and long context on a budget.
Reason over images and audio natively — no separate vision model.
Hold entire books or codebases in context at once.
Call Google Search and custom tools with grounded results.
Sub-second responses at a fraction of frontier pricing.
For speed, context length, and price, Gemini 2.0 Flash is hard to beat in 2026. Use it as your default for high-volume and multimodal tasks; reach for Gemini 3 or o1 when you need maximum reasoning.