diff --git a/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js b/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js
index a96b78889..6c238eccc 100644
--- a/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js
+++ b/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ async function sendMakerSuiteRequest(request, response) {
         }
         // Most of the other models allow for setting the threshold of filters, except for HARM_CATEGORY_CIVIC_INTEGRITY, to OFF.
 
-        if (enableWebSearch && !useMultiModal && !isGemma && !isLearnLM) {
+        if (enableWebSearch && !useMultiModal && !isGemma && !isLearnLM && !model.includes('gemini-2.0-flash-lite')) {
             const searchTool = model.includes('1.5') || model.includes('1.0')
                 ? ({ google_search_retrieval: {} })
                 : ({ google_search: {} });