Google · Balanced
Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
Note: This model is now being routed to Gemini 2.5 Pro because Google no longer has the Gemini 2.0 Pro model available and Gemini 2.5 Pro is an across the board improvement.
- Vision
- Audio input
- Input
- Text, Images, Audio
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.26
- Output
- $5.00
- Cache read
- $0.63
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 2.1M
- Max output
- 8.2K
Side by side
Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206GoogleThis model | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Frontier |
| Added | Dec 6, 2024 | Oct 13, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 2.1MBest | 1.05M |
| Max output | 8.19K | 65.54KBest |
| Average output | — | 1.6K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.26Best | $2.00 |
| Output | $5.00Best | $10.00 |
| Cache read | $0.63 | $0.10Best |
| Cache write | — | $0.19 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 101.4 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 13.0 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 98.6% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 52.6 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Audio input | Yes | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
Intelligence Index
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206—
- Gemini 4 Argon52.6
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 77.5%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 53.1%
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 3.9%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 1,486 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 1,624 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 21.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 79.7%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 13.9%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 57.1%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 57.1%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 61.8%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206: —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 79.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Combined | Not in top 20 | #2 · 46.9% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Combined leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Roleplay | Not in top 20 | #16 · 22.0% |
| Creative writing | Not in top 20 | #7 · 41.3% |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #7 · 30.0% |
| Math | Not in top 20 | #1 · 50.0% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1517.2 |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1551.6 |
| Math | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1531.7 |
| Longer Query | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1534.5 |
| Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1512.4 |
| Instruction Following | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1519.2 |
| Hard Prompts | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1540.3 |
| Chinese | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1579.2 |
| English | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1520.1 |
| Exclude Ties | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1542.6 |
| Expert | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1537.0 |
| French | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1541.0 |
| Hard Prompts English | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1537.8 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1508.8 |
| Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1508.5 |
| Industry Legal And Government | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1514.5 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1531.9 |
| Industry Mathematical | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1539.6 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1533.3 |
| Industry Software And It Services | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1548.9 |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1515.0 |
| Multi Turn | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1543.8 |
| Non English | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1508.0 |
| Polish | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1516.4 |
| Russian | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1528.8 |
| Spanish | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1498.2 |
| WebDev Overall | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1674.2 |
| WebDev · Webdev | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1674.2 |
| WebDev · Webdev-html | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1641.7 |
| WebDev · Webdev-react | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1689.8 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | Not in top 20 | #11 · 47.5% |
| FrontierCode Extended | Not in top 20 | #9 · 60.6% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not in top 20 | #5 · 166.4 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | Not in top 20 | #4 · 98.5% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not in top 20 | #5 · 91.3% |
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | Not in top 20 | #3 · 49.8% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1240 |
| Longform Writing | Not in top 20 | #14 · 80.9 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1370 |
| Website | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1317 |
| UI Component | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1333 |
| Data Visualization | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1331 |
| 3D | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1385 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
- Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206
- Gemini 4 Argon
| Leaderboard | Gemini 2.0 Pro 1206 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Usage Share | Not in top 20 | #5 · 6.5% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Usage leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 79.6%
- About $0.76 per 1M input tokens with caching
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "gemini-exp-1206",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gemini-exp-1206",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Related models
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