{"slug": "nano-banana-deprecated-retires-2026-10-02-nano-banana-2", "title": "Nano Banana deprecated, retires 2026-10-02 → Nano Banana 2", "summary": "Google's Nano Banana image model, listed as gemini-2.5-flash-image with a 33k context window and pricing of $0.30 per 1M input and $30 per 1M output tokens, is deprecated and will retire on 2026-10-02 in favor of Nano Banana 2. The model-tracking service llmstatus.ai is flagging code that calls Nano Banana so developers can migrate before the retirement date.", "body_md": "GG✕ Retired\n\n# Nano Banana\n\nGoogle · gemini-2.5-flash-image\n\ngemini-flashtext+image33k context33k max out$0.30 / $30 per 1M\n\nalso matches: \n\n`gemini-2.5-flash-image`` google/gemini-2.5-flash-image`\n[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/google/gemini-2.5-flash-image)\n\nDoes your code call Nano Banana?\n\n$ 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/nano-banana-deprecated-retires-2026-10-02-nano-banana-2", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/google/google/gemini-2.5-flash-image", "published_at": "2026-10-14 18:00:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 00:22:05.388017+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "generative-ai", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Google", "Nano Banana", "Nano Banana 2", "gemini-2.5-flash-image", "llmstatus.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nano-banana-deprecated-retires-2026-10-02-nano-banana-2", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nano-banana-deprecated-retires-2026-10-02-nano-banana-2.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nano-banana-deprecated-retires-2026-10-02-nano-banana-2.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nano-banana-deprecated-retires-2026-10-02-nano-banana-2.jsonld"}}