Nano Banana deprecated, retires 2026-10-02 → Nano Banana 2

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.

GG✕ Retired Nano Banana Google · gemini-2.5-flash-image gemini-flashtext+image33k context33k max out$0.30 / $30 per 1M also matches: gemini-2.5-flash-image google/gemini-2.5-flash-image provider announcement → https://models.dev/google/gemini-2.5-flash-image Does your code call Nano Banana? $ 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