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Gemini 2.5 Flash deprecated without warning earlier than shutdown date
Gemini API
models,<br>api,<br>gemini
Ruthvik
July 9, 2026, 7:11pm
Hi, we are using Gemini 2.5 flash in our critical workloads and we saw that the deprecation date is Oct 16, 2026. But now we are seeing this come up,
“This model models/gemini-2.5-flash is no longer available. Please update your code to use a newer model for the latest features and improvements.” with a 404.
Is anyone observing the same issue? This is not good. Anyone from google support, please resolve this issue.
Seano
July 9, 2026, 7:28pm
Getting same here, really hope this was just an accident that gets resolved (quickly)
Liam_James
July 9, 2026, 7:28pm
same situation, complete chaos. Also had to use a vpn to create a account on this site, what a mess.
Gustavo_Trapp
July 9, 2026, 7:30pm
Same situation here, this is outrageous
Pedro_Lucas
July 9, 2026, 7:32pm
Same situation here, my application is completely offline.
Harris_Schneiderman
July 9, 2026, 7:34pm
Same here, we’re experiencing a massive production outage as a result
Tarcisio_Marques
July 9, 2026, 7:34pm
Same situation here. hope they fix thix…
Renan_Andrade_Rubeus
July 9, 2026, 7:36pm
The same situation here.
Ruthvik
July 9, 2026, 7:38pm
Seems like its the same for 2.5 Pro as well. Vertex endpoints are at 10-15s latency for a simple call, not sure how long these will be active.
Seano
July 9, 2026, 7:40pm
10
Oof. someone here wants to try swapping API keys…no idea what that would do but apparently he saw somewhere that can help
Liam_James
July 9, 2026, 7:45pm
11
tried it all, no workie
Guy_David
July 9, 2026, 7:50pm
12
gemini-2.5-* return 404
teodor.glisic
July 9, 2026, 7:53pm
13
Man, I thought I was going crazy since my bachelor thesis is based on the gemini-2.5-flash for free tier purposes. After checking with python I get this:
404 NOT_FOUND. {‘error’: {‘code’: 404, ‘message’: ‘This model models/gemini-2.5-flash is no longer available. Please update your code to use a newer model for the latest features and improvements.’, ‘status’: ‘NOT_FOUND’}}
On their website where they put up the depreciation (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations) they show this:
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Now what to do?
John_van_Hulsen
July 9, 2026, 7:56pm
14
Works here again since 10 seconds
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