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.

GG✕ Retired Gemini 2.5 Flash 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 Does your code call Gemini 2.5 Flash? $ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash Then mm status in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded. Get alerted before it retires → https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up