{"slug": "gemini-2-5-models-accidentally-deprecated-early-by-google", "title": "Gemini 2.5 models accidentally deprecated early by Google", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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,\n\n“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.\n\nIs anyone observing the same issue? This is not good. Anyone from google support, please resolve this issue.\n\n[Seano](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Seano)\n2\nGetting same here, really hope this was just an accident that gets resolved (quickly)\n\nsame situation, complete chaos. Also had to use a vpn to create a account on this site, what a mess.\n\nSame situation here, this is outrageous\n\nSame situation here, my application is completely offline.\n\nSame here, we’re experiencing a massive production outage as a result\n\nSame situation here. hope they fix thix…\n\nSeems 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.\n\n[Seano](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Seano)\n10\nOof. someone here wants to try swapping API keys…no idea what that would do but apparently he saw somewhere that can help\n\nMan, 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:\n\n404 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’}}\n\nOn their website where they put up the depreciation ([https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations)) they show this:\n\nNow what to do?\n\n[EDIT: I selected the wrong one in the picture, but you get the idea]\n\n[EDIT 2: Okay seems to be working again]\n\nWorks here again since 10 seconds\n\nI suspected his disable wrong model.\n\nEverything is working here again too.\n\nMy god how is that even possible anyone having solution ? 3.1lite is disgusting", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-models-accidentally-deprecated-early-by-google", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-2-5-flash-deprecated-without-warning-earlier-than-shutdown-date/174217", "published_at": "2026-07-09 19:53:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-09 20:07:13.422757+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini 2.5 Flash", "Gemini 2.5 Pro", "Vertex"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-models-accidentally-deprecated-early-by-google", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-models-accidentally-deprecated-early-by-google.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-models-accidentally-deprecated-early-by-google.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-2-5-models-accidentally-deprecated-early-by-google.jsonld"}}