{"slug": "gemini-2-5-flash-lite-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-1-flash-lite", "title": "Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite deprecated, retires 2026-10-16 → Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "GG▲ Retiring soon\n\n# Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite\n\nGoogle · gemini-2.5-flash-lite\n\nGemini 2.5text+vision1049k context66k max out$0.30 / $2.50 per 1M\n\nalso matches: \n\n`gemini-2.5-flash-lite`` gemini-flash-lite-latest``google/gemini-flash-lite-latest`` google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite`\n[provider announcement →](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog)\n\nDoes your code call Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?\n\n$ 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-lite-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-1-flash-lite", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/google/google/gemini-2-5-flash-lite", "published_at": "2026-10-11 00:00:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-11 00:51:39.448536+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "developer-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite", "Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite", "Gemini API", "llmstatus.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-flash-lite-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-1-flash-lite", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-flash-lite-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-1-flash-lite.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-flash-lite-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-1-flash-lite.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-flash-lite-deprecated-retires-2026-10-16-gemini-3-1-flash-lite.jsonld"}}