{"slug": "gemini-3-1-flash-tts-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-12-18", "title": "Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview deprecated, retires 2026-12-18", "summary": "Google has marked Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, released 2026-04-15, for retirement with an earliest possible shutdown date of 2026-12-18, roughly 34 days out and subject to change. The model carries an 8k-token text context, 16k maximum output, and pricing of $1 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens. The deprecation notice points developers to a provider announcement and to a tool that scans repositories for models facing shutdown dates.", "body_md": "GG▲ Retiring soon\n\n# Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview\n\nGoogle · gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview\n\nGoogle: earliest possible shutdown 2026-12-18 (estimated, may move). \n\n[Provider statement →](https://models.dev/google/gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview)\nReleased2026-04-15\n\nRetires2026-12-18in 34d\n\ngemini-flashtext8k context16k max out$1 / $20 per 1M\n\nalso matches: \n\n`gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview`` google/gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview`\n[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/google/gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview)\n\nDoes your code call Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview?\n\n$ 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-3-1-flash-tts-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-12-18", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/google/google/gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview", "published_at": "2026-11-14 00:00:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-14 00:51:53.547341+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Google", "Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview", "models.dev", "llmstatus.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-1-flash-tts-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-12-18", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-1-flash-tts-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-12-18.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-1-flash-tts-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-12-18.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-1-flash-tts-preview-deprecated-retires-2026-12-18.jsonld"}}