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.

GG▲ Retiring soon Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 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 → https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up