HighDeprecation
Gemini 2.5 Model Retirement Date Updated to October 2026
Action Required
Failure to migrate away from Gemini 2.5 models by October 16, 2026, will result in a service outage and require significant rework of applications.
AI Impact Summary
Google is sunsetting the Gemini 2.5 model family, including Pro, Flash-Lite, and Flash, with a final retirement date of October 16, 2026. This impacts any applications currently leveraging these models for text generation, requiring a migration to newer Gemini models like Gemini 3.1 or GPT-4o-mini. This change necessitates immediate assessment of existing workflows and a migration plan to avoid service disruption.
Gemini 2.5 Model Retirement Date Updated to October 2026
Affected Systems
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- Date
- 2 Apr 2026
- Change type
- deprecation
- Severity
- high