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Gemini 2.5 Flash deprecated, retires 2026-10-16 → Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google has deprecated Gemini 2.5 Flash, with the model set to retire on 2026-10-16 and be replaced by Gemini 3.5 Flash, according to the provider announcement linked from the llmstatus.ai tracking page. Gemini 2.5 Flash, listed as gemini-2.5-flash, handled text, vision and audio with a 1,049k-token context window, 66k maximum output and pricing of $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.75 per 1M output tokens. The retirement gives developers running the model a fixed deadline to migrate their code to Gemini 3.5 Flash.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash deprecated, retires 2026-10-16 → Gemini 3.5 Flash
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GG✕ Retired

Google · gemini-2.5-flash Gemini 2.5text+vision+audio1049k context66k max out$0.75 / $3.75 per 1M

also matches:

`gemini-2.5-flash`` gemini-2-5-flash``gemini-flash-latest`` google/gemini-2.5-flash``google/gemini-flash-latest`
[provider announcement →](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog)

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source & further reading
llmstatus.ai — original article New model: Qwen3.8 Max (Alibaba (Qwen)) New model: Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed (Moonshot AI) Devstral Small deprecated
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