Time to Bail · Boarding pass
Act. You can stay.
Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite retire on October 20, 2026. Switch to a newer model.[1]
Act means: change a setting or plan before the date. You can stay.
Gemini 2.5 models retire on Vertex AI on October 20, 2026
Google retires Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite on Vertex AI on October 20, 2026. Google now calls Vertex AI the Agent Platform. Apps must switch to a newer model first.
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Search your code and settings for gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash and gemini-2.5-flash-lite.
Google lists gemini-3.8-flash for all three. Skip gemini-3.6-flash: it retires November 19, 2026.
Run your usual prompts on the new model. Check the output format, speed and cost. Ship before October 20.
| Retirement date | October 20, 2026[1] |
|---|---|
| Models that retire | gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash and gemini-2.5-flash-lite (Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, Flash-Lite)[1] |
| Google's picks for 2.5 Pro | gemini-3.8-flash or gemini-3.5-flash[1] |
| Google's picks for 2.5 Flash | gemini-3.8-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite or gemini-3.1-flash-lite[1] |
| Google's picks for 2.5 Flash-Lite | gemini-3.8-flash, gemini-3.1-flash-lite or Gemma 4[1] |
| Careful: a newer model also retires soon | gemini-3.6-flash retires November 19, 2026[1] |
| Retirement date for the newest Flash model | gemini-3.8-flash: none announced yet[1] |
| Other picks retire | gemini-3.5-flash: May 19, 2027 or later; gemini-3.1-flash-lite: May 7, 2027 or later[1] |
| Can the date move earlier? | No. Google says dates may be extended, but not moved earlier[1] |
| If you do nothing | Calls to a retired model can fail with errors; Google says to update to a newer model[1] |
| What Google calls Vertex AI now | Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Agent Platform for short)[1] |
| Apps that call Gemini 2.5 on Vertex AI | Must move to another model by October 20, 2026[1] |
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Time to bail on Gemini 2.5 models on Vertex AI? Act. You can stay. Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite retire on October 20, 2026. Switch to a newer model.
On our scale this is Act: change a setting or plan before the date. You can stay.
Google retires Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash and Flash-Lite on Vertex AI on October 20, 2026. Google now calls Vertex AI the Agent Platform. Apps must switch to a newer model first.
Here are the facts we checked:
You can stay on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. You have to change a setting or plan before the date.
Leaving is a choice here, not a must.
Google Cloud is the main source for this page. Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform has not said more than what is listed here. If a fact is not on this page, we do not know it yet.
Apps that call Gemini 2.5 on Vertex AI: Must move to another model by October 20, 2026.
The date to remember is October 20, 2026. Make the change before then.
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