whatmodel.sh / Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (01-21)

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (01-21) is a closed-weights language model from Google, released January 2025. Licence: proprietary.

Catalogue identity notes

Comparison model from the Epoch AI internal-evaluation CSVs (Epoch release date 2025-01-21). Experimental API model gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21; distinct from gemini-2.0-flash-001. Listed as shut down in the Gemini API changelog.

57.4±1.5comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 4 benchmark results across 3 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (01-21), out of 828 with a score, then more from Google.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
272Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 Mistral58±1local~10GB2025-12
273GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAI57±1api $4.38/M2024-08
274Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (01-21) Google57±2comparison only2025-01
275DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B DeepSeek57±1api $0.068/M +local~6.3GB2025-05
276Granite 4.2 3B IBM57±1api $0.052/M +local~3.7GB2026-08
more from Google
9Gemini 4 Argon (limited preview) Google82±1limited preview2026-09
23Gemini 3.8 Flash Google77±1api $1.50/M2026-09
32Gemini 3.7 Flash Google76±1api $1.50/M2026-08

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▂▆█▆▅▄▄▃▂▁ #246 of 340 * · 4.1% of its score · 1 test

Beats o1 (2024-12-17), o3-mini, DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails SmolLM3 3B, Jamba 1.5 Mini, LFM2.5 1.2B Thinking here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BFCL v358.7% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▅▄▁▁ beats 79/114medium · avg 52%▇▇ 4.1%blunt · at its level
coding▁▁▁▃▅▇█▇▅▄▃▁ #263 of 524 * · 45% of its score · 1 test

Beats Qwen3.5 4B, Qwen3-VL 32B Instruct, Solar Open 100B (102B-A12B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails QwQ-32B-Preview, Ministral 3 3B Reasoning 2512, GPT-4 (0613) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Aider polyglot (225 exercises, two attempts)18.2% ✎▂·▂▃▅▂▃█▆▄▂▂ beats 9/49very hard · avg 8.5%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 45%sharp · at its level
math▁▂▃▅▇▅▅█▄▁▁▁ #175 of 462 * · 17% of its score · 1 test

Beats MiMo-V2.5 (310B-A15B), MiniMax-M2.7, MiniMax-M2.1 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Olmo 3 7B Think, Qwen3-VL 4B Thinking, Granite 4.2 3B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
OTIS mock AIME 2024–202557.8% ✎▃▃▄▃▃▃▇▇█▃▂▅ beats 86/193very hard · avg 8.5%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 17%sharp · at its level · noisy
other tests1 not in a task · 34% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GPQA Diamond57.1% ✎▁▁▁▁▂▄▆▄▅▇█▅ beats 85/208hard · avg 40%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 34%sharp · at its level

$ where to run it

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$ how the score was worked out · Epoch AI — internal evaluatio… 50%, Aider polyglot benchmark runs 45%, Berkeley Function Calling Lea… 4%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Epoch AI — internal evaluations2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 50%CC BY 4.0
Aider polyglot benchmark runs1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 45%Apache-2.0
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard result archive1▇ 4%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 1%
weighted average= 57.4

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