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Gemini 2.5 models accidentally deprecated early by Google

Google accidentally deprecated its Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro models early, causing widespread production outages for developers who rely on the models. The issue was resolved after about 30 minutes, with Google restoring access to the models. The incident highlights the risks of premature deprecation in AI API services.

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Gemini 2.5 models accidentally deprecated early by Google
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Hi, we are using Gemini 2.5 flash in our critical workloads and we saw that the deprecation date is Oct 16, 2026. But now we are seeing this come up,

“This model models/gemini-2.5-flash is no longer available. Please update your code to use a newer model for the latest features and improvements.” with a 404.

Is anyone observing the same issue? This is not good. Anyone from google support, please resolve this issue.

Seano 2 Getting same here, really hope this was just an accident that gets resolved (quickly)

same situation, complete chaos. Also had to use a vpn to create a account on this site, what a mess.

Same situation here, this is outrageous

Same situation here, my application is completely offline.

Same here, we’re experiencing a massive production outage as a result

Same situation here. hope they fix thix…

Seems like its the same for 2.5 Pro as well. Vertex endpoints are at 10-15s latency for a simple call, not sure how long these will be active.

Seano 10 Oof. someone here wants to try swapping API keys…no idea what that would do but apparently he saw somewhere that can help

Man, I thought I was going crazy since my bachelor thesis is based on the gemini-2.5-flash for free tier purposes. After checking with python I get this:

404 NOT_FOUND. {‘error’: {‘code’: 404, ‘message’: ‘This model models/gemini-2.5-flash is no longer available. Please update your code to use a newer model for the latest features and improvements.’, ‘status’: ‘NOT_FOUND’}}

On their website where they put up the depreciation (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations) they show this: Now what to do?

[EDIT: I selected the wrong one in the picture, but you get the idea]

[EDIT 2: Okay seems to be working again] Works here again since 10 seconds

I suspected his disable wrong model.

Everything is working here again too.

My god how is that even possible anyone having solution ? 3.1lite is disgusting

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