gemini-2.5-flash-lite

gemini-2.5-flash-lite (Gemini API) is marked legacy, with no shutdown date announced yet. Gemini API recommends gemini-3.8-flash or gemini-3.5-flash-lite instead.

Provider

Gemini API

Shutdown

not announced

Announced

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Replace with

gemini-3.8-flash or gemini-3.5-flash-lite

Provider says

Not deprecated; access limited to existing users

Also written as

models/gemini-2.5-flash-lite

• Gemini API (2026-09-18): access to 2.5 models limited to users who used them before; 'These models are not deprecated and will continue to be served until further notice'. NOT dead on the Gemini API - but the same ID is RETIRED on Vertex AI (2026-10-20).

Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations · report a wrong date