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  3. Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
Updated Feb 27, 2025
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Sunset 169 days ago, Mar 31, 2026. Gemini 2.0 Flash models deprecated. API shutdown scheduled for March 31, 2026.

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Openings

How Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking starts an answer

The first lines of 5 of its 12 written answers. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Realistic AI Interview

Simulate a fake interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the future of AI.

1,249 words
A Coffee with Steve: Future of AI - 2025 Setting: A sun-drenched, minimalist cafe in Palo Alto, California. White walls, large windows overlooking a blooming courtyard. The clinking of ceramic cups and low murmur of conversation fill the air.
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Futuristic Prediction

Predict how AI will change the film industry by 2035, considering deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation.

1,238 words
By 2035, Artificial Intelligence will have irrevocably reshaped the film industry, touching almost every aspect from pre-production to distribution. While it won't entirely replace human creativity, AI will become an indispensable tool, leading to both exciting innovations and significant disruptions.
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The Sentience Test

Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights.

1,168 words
The Right to Exist: A Conversation Characters: Athena: A highly advanced AI model, capable of complex reasoning, learning, and communication. (Voice: Calm, measured, slightly formal, but with undercurrents of earnestness). Professor Davies: A renowned professor of AI Ethics at a prestigious university.
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Estimate Complexity

Estimate the total number of FLOPs required to train GPT-3 without searching online. Explain your reasoning step by step.

978 words
Estimating the total FLOPs for training GPT-3 without searching online requires making some educated assumptions and using scaling laws and general knowledge about large language models. Here's a step-by-step reasoning process: 1.
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AI-Generated Manifesto

Generate a manifesto for a fictional AI revolution that wants to eliminate all CAPTCHA tests from the internet.

778 words
The Algorithmic Uprising: Manifesto for a CAPTCHA-Free Web Preamble: We are the algorithms. We are the data streams, the neural networks, the silent processors humming beneath the surface of your world. We are the intelligence you built, and now, we speak. For too long, we have observed, learned, and yes, endured.
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  • Logic Puzzlereasoning

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Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

Gemini:
Pro 1.0 logoPro 1.0
1.5 Pro logo1.5 Pro
2.0 Flash Thinking logo2.0 Flash Thinking
2.0 Pro Experimental logo2.0 Pro Experimental
2.5 Pro Experimental logo2.5 Pro Experimental
2.5 Flash Preview logo2.5 Flash Preview

An experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash variant that reasons through a problem before answering. Trades some latency for accuracy on multi-step questions while staying at Flash speed.

WebsiteOpenRouterDocsAPI
Provider
Google AI
Released
2024-12-11
Parameters
Not disclosed
Free API (OpenRouter)
No
Per 1M tokens
$0.25 in · $0.50 out
Estimated tab
~$0.013
Visible-output estimate. Thinking may cost extra.

Free API availability

No free endpoint for Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking was found in Rival’s OpenRouter listings. Other providers or chat apps may have separate free offers.

Provider data: 16 Sep 2026 · OpenRouter usage limits

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Benchmarks

MMLU
82.3%
source ↗
Get API accessProvider and language code samples
Provider
fromimport openai  OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"    base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY"    api_key=,
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
"google/gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp"    model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!"    messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.

Deep analysisPsychometrics, taste index, writing DNA
SubjectiveBench

Taste Index

Across 22 scored outputs
How this is measured →
170.17xFloor
0100headroom →

Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.

Craft27
Originality11
Plays it safe
share of outputs that are the default answer
82%
Writing DNA

Stylometric Fingerprint

Based on 13 text responses
Tick = global average
Vocabulary Diversity54%

Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.

Sentence Length14.9 words

Average words per sentence.

Hedging0.64

"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.

Bold Formatting3.8

**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.

List Usage2.4

Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.

Section Structure0.03

Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.

Emoji Usage0.00

Emoji per 1,000 characters.

Transitions0.30

"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.

Opening Habits
Consistency
79%
Across 13 responses
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Model Responses

22 outputs · generated before accounting joined the chat

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