Is gemini-2.0-flash-lite deprecated?

Q: Is gemini-2.0-flash-lite deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-06-01 — 107 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-06-01 — 107 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

state=dead sunset=2026-06-01 days_remaining=-107 severity=critical sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-09-16 03:02Z

google/gemini-2.0-flash-lite

Vendor: google. Tracked by 1 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	gemini-2.0-flash-lite	1,048,576	8,192	$0.075	$0.3	2026-06-01

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
medium	removed	[one catalog only — litellm still list it] gemini-2.0-flash-lite is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail	2026-08-10
info	deprecated	gemini-2.0-flash-lite: retires 2026-06-01 (61 days ago)	2026-08-01
info	deprecated	gemini/gemini-2.0-flash-lite: retires 2026-06-01 (61 days ago)	2026-08-01
info	deprecated	vercel_ai_gateway/google/gemini-2.0-flash-lite: retires 2026-06-01 (61 days ago)	2026-08-01