{"slug": "gemini-2-5-flash-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-5-flash", "title": "Gemini 2.5 Flash deprecated, retires 2026-10-16 → Gemini 3.5 Flash", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "GG✕ Retired\n\n# Gemini 2.5 Flash\n\nGoogle · gemini-2.5-flash\n\nGemini 2.5text+vision+audio1049k context66k max out$0.75 / $3.75 per 1M\n\nalso matches: \n\n`gemini-2.5-flash`` gemini-2-5-flash``gemini-flash-latest`` google/gemini-2.5-flash``google/gemini-flash-latest`\n[provider announcement →](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog)\n\nDoes your code call Gemini 2.5 Flash?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status` in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-flash-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-5-flash", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/google/google/gemini-2-5-flash", "published_at": "2026-10-26 12:00:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-26 12:42:41.959355+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini 2.5 Flash", "Gemini 3.5 Flash", "llmstatus.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-flash-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-5-flash", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-flash-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-5-flash.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-flash-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-5-flash.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-flash-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-5-flash.jsonld"}}