Google Gemini API model shutdowns

Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations

Upcoming

ShutdownInModelReplacementType
Oct 22, 20266 daysgemini-omni-flash-previewgemini-omni-1.1-flashtext
Oct 22, 20266 daysveo-3.1-fast-generate-previewgemini-omni-1.1-flashvideo
Oct 22, 20266 daysveo-3.1-generate-previewgemini-omni-1.1-flashvideo
Oct 22, 20266 daysveo-3.1-lite-generate-previewgemini-omni-1.1-flashvideo
Nov 17, 202632 daysgemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025gemini-3.8-liveaudio
Nov 17, 202632 daysgemini-2.5-flash-preview-ttsgemini-3.8-flash-tts or gemini-3.8-flash-lite-ttsaudio
Nov 17, 202632 daysgemini-2.5-pro-preview-ttsgemini-3.8-flash-tts or gemini-3.8-flash-lite-ttsaudio
Nov 17, 202632 daysgemini-3.1-flash-live-previewgemini-3.8-liveaudio
Nov 17, 202632 daysgemini-3.1-flash-tts-previewgemini-3.8-flash-tts or gemini-3.8-flash-lite-ttsaudio
Mar 15, 2027150 daysgemini-2.5-flash-imagegemini-3.1-flash-lite-imageimage
May 7, 2027203 daysgemini-3.1-flash-litegemini-3.5-flash-litetext
May 14, 2028576 daysgemini-embedding-001gemini-embedding-2embedding

Retired or no date

ShutdownInModelReplacementType
Aug 31, 202646 days agogemini-robotics-er-1.6-previewgemini-robotics-er-2-previewtext
Aug 17, 202660 days agoimagen-4.0-fast-generate-001gemini-nano-banana-2.1image
Aug 17, 202660 days agoimagen-4.0-generate-001gemini-nano-banana-2.1image
Aug 17, 202660 days agoimagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001gemini-nano-banana-2.1image
Aug 10, 202667 days agoembedding-2-previewgemini-embedding-2embedding
Jul 28, 202680 days agogemini-2.5-computer-use-preview-10-2025gemini-3.8-flashtext
Jun 30, 2026108 days agoveo-2.0-generate-001veo-3.1-generate-preview or the GA models on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platformvideo
Jun 30, 2026108 days agoveo-3.0-fast-generate-001veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview or the GA models on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platformvideo
Jun 30, 2026108 days agoveo-3.0-generate-001veo-3.1-generate-preview or the GA models on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platformvideo
Jun 25, 2026113 days agogemini-3-pro-image-previewgemini-3-pro-imageimage
Jun 25, 2026113 days agogemini-3.1-flash-image-previewgemini-nano-banana-2.1image
Jun 1, 2026137 days agogemini-2.0-flashgemini-3.6-flashtext
Jun 1, 2026137 days agogemini-2.0-flash-001gemini-3.6-flashtext
Jun 1, 2026137 days agogemini-2.0-flash-litegemini-3.1-flash-litetext
Jun 1, 2026137 days agogemini-2.0-flash-lite-001gemini-3.1-flash-litetext
May 25, 2026144 days agogemini-3.1-flash-lite-previewgemini-3.1-flash-litetext
Apr 30, 2026169 days agogemini-robotics-er-1.5-previewgemini-robotics-er-1.6-previewtext
Mar 31, 2026199 days agogemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025gemini-3.1-flash-litetext
Mar 9, 2026221 days agogemini-3-pro-previewgemini-3.1-pro-previewtext
Feb 17, 2026241 days agogemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-25gemini-3.6-flashtext
Feb 17, 2026241 days agoimagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06imagen-4.0-generate-001image
Feb 17, 2026241 days agoimagen-4.0-ultra-generate-preview-06-06imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001image
Jan 15, 2026274 days agogemini-2.5-flash-image-previewgemini-nano-banana-2.1image
Jan 14, 2026275 days agotext-embedding-004gemini-embedding-2embedding
Dec 9, 2025311 days agogemini-2.0-flash-lite-previewgemini-2.5-flash-litetext
Dec 9, 2025311 days agogemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05gemini-2.5-flash-litetext
Dec 9, 2025311 days agogemini-2.0-flash-live-001gemini-3.8-liveaudio
Dec 9, 2025311 days agogemini-live-2.5-flash-previewgemini-3.8-liveaudio
Dec 2, 2025318 days agogemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25gemini-3.1-pro-previewtext
Dec 2, 2025318 days agogemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06gemini-3.1-pro-previewtext
Dec 2, 2025318 days agogemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05gemini-3.1-pro-previewtext
Nov 18, 2025332 days agogemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20gemini-3.6-flashtext
Nov 14, 2025336 days agogemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generationgemini-nano-banana-2.1image
Nov 12, 2025338 days agoveo-3.0-fast-generate-previewveo-3.1-fast-generate-previewvideo
Nov 12, 2025338 days agoveo-3.0-generate-previewveo-3.1-generate-previewvideo
Nov 10, 2025340 days agoimagen-3.0-generate-002imagen-4.0-generate-001image
Oct 30, 2025351 days agoembedding-001gemini-embedding-2embedding
Oct 30, 2025351 days agoembedding-gecko-001gemini-embedding-2embedding
Oct 30, 2025351 days agogemini-embedding-expgemini-embedding-2embedding
Oct 30, 2025351 days agogemini-embedding-exp-03-07gemini-embedding-2embedding
——gemini-2.5-flash—text
——gemini-2.5-flash-lite—text
——gemini-2.5-pro—text
——gemini-3-flash-previewgemini-3.6-flashtext
——gemini-3-pro-image—image
——gemini-3.1-flash-imagegemini-nano-banana-2.1image
——gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image—image
——gemini-3.1-pro-preview—text
——gemini-3.5-flashgemini-3.6-flash (not available to select in Google AI Studio; the endpoint is not shutting down and automatically routes API requests to gemini-3.6-flash )text
——gemini-3.5-flash-lite—text
——gemini-3.5-live-translate-preview—audio
——gemini-3.5-transcribe—audio
——gemini-3.5-transcribe-live—audio
——gemini-3.6-flash—text
——gemini-3.7-flashgemini-3.8-flash (not available to select in Google AI Studio; the endpoint is not shutting down and automatically routes API requests to gemini-3.8-flash )text
——gemini-3.8-flash—text
——gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts—audio
——gemini-3.8-flash-tts—audio
——gemini-3.8-live—audio
——gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking—audio
——gemini-embedding-2—embedding
——gemini-nano-banana-2.1—image
——gemini-omni-1.1-flash—text
——lyria-3-clip-preview—audio
——lyria-3-pro-previewlyria-3.5audio
——lyria-3.5—audio
——lyria-realtime-exp—audio

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