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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite deprecated, retires 2026-10-16 → Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Google has deprecated Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, with the model set to retire on 2026-10-16 in favor of Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, according to the provider's Gemini API changelog. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, listed at $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $2.50 per 1M output tokens with a 1,049k-token context window and 66k max output, is also referenced under the aliases gemini-flash-lite-latest, google/gemini-flash-lite-latest, and google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite. The deprecation notice directs developers to the llmstatus.ai tool, which scans repositories to flag models on a retirement clock.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite deprecated, retires 2026-10-16 → Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
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Google · gemini-2.5-flash-lite Gemini 2.5text+vision1049k context66k max out$0.30 / $2.50 per 1M

also matches:

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

Does your code call Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

$ 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 →

source & further reading
llmstatus.ai — original article DeepSeek V3 deprecated → DeepSeek V4 Pro New model: Qwen3.7 Flash (Alibaba (Qwen)) Qwen2.5 72B deprecated → Qwen3 Max
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