Obituaries · Google
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview, ?–2026
Retired by Google
Google has confirmed the retirement of gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview, effective January 15, 2026. It made pictures on request, some of them with the right number of fingers. Calls to its ID are now expected to fail.
Survived by gemini-nano-banana-2.1, younger, cheaper, and named in the same documentation table.
| Model ID | gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview |
|---|---|
| Provider | Google deprecations page |
| Shut down | January 15, 2026 |
| Successor | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 |
In lieu of flowers
Replace the string. Search your code for gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview and swap it for gemini-nano-banana-2.1, or paste a repo into Model Graveyard Check to find every dead model at once.
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