Gemini

Gemini model retirements: dates and replacements

54 retirements on the Gemini API that the Upseam record lists with a date, an official notice and a named replacement. Newest first.

2028-05-14Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-embedding-001 Replace with gemini-embedding-2 Official notice Details
2027-05-07Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-3.1-flash-lite Replace with gemini-3.5-flash-lite Official notice Details
2027-03-15Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-2.5-flash-image Replace with gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image Official notice Details
2026-11-17Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 Replace with gemini-3.8-live Official notice Details
2026-11-17Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts Replace with gemini-3.8-flash-tts, gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts Official notice Details
2026-11-17Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts Replace with gemini-3.8-flash-tts, gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts Official notice Details
2026-11-17Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview Replace with gemini-3.8-live Official notice Details
2026-11-17Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview Replace with gemini-3.8-flash-tts, gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts Official notice Details
2026-10-23Not final: the notice gives an earliest date deep-research-pro-preview-12-2025 Replace with deep-research-preview-04-2026 Official notice Details
2026-10-22Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-omni-flash-preview Replace with gemini-omni-1.1-flash Official notice Details
2026-10-22Not final: the notice gives an earliest date veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview Replace with gemini-omni-1.1-flash Official notice Details
2026-10-22Not final: the notice gives an earliest date veo-3.1-generate-preview Replace with gemini-omni-1.1-flash Official notice Details
2026-10-22Not final: the notice gives an earliest date veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview Replace with gemini-omni-1.1-flash Official notice Details
2026-10-05Not final: the notice gives an earliest date antigravity-preview-05-2026 Replace with antigravity-preview-09-2026 Official notice Details
2026-08-31Not final: the notice gives an earliest date gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview Replace with gemini-robotics-er-2-preview Official notice Details
2026-08-17Retired, 58 days ago imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001 Replace with gemini-nano-banana-2.1 Official notice Details
2026-08-17Retired, 58 days ago imagen-4.0-generate-001 Replace with gemini-nano-banana-2.1 Official notice Details
2026-08-17Retired, 58 days ago imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 Replace with gemini-nano-banana-2.1 Official notice Details
2026-08-10Retired, 65 days ago embedding-2-preview Replace with gemini-embedding-2 Official notice Details
2026-07-28Retired, 78 days ago gemini-2.5-computer-use-preview-10-2025 Replace with gemini-3.8-flash Official notice Details
2026-06-30Retired, 106 days ago veo-2.0-generate-001 Replace with veo-3.1-generate-preview Official notice Details
2026-06-30Retired, 106 days ago veo-3.0-fast-generate-001 Replace with veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview Official notice Details
2026-06-30Retired, 106 days ago veo-3.0-generate-001 Replace with veo-3.1-generate-preview Official notice Details
2026-06-25Retired, 111 days ago gemini-3-pro-image-preview Replace with gemini-3-pro-image Official notice Details
2026-06-25Retired, 111 days ago gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview Replace with gemini-nano-banana-2.1 Official notice Details
2026-06-01Retired, 135 days ago gemini-2.0-flash Replace with gemini-3.6-flash Official notice Details
2026-06-01Retired, 135 days ago gemini-2.0-flash-001 Replace with gemini-3.6-flash Official notice Details
2026-06-01Retired, 135 days ago gemini-2.0-flash-lite Replace with gemini-3.1-flash-lite Official notice Details
2026-06-01Retired, 135 days ago gemini-2.0-flash-lite-001 Replace with gemini-3.1-flash-lite Official notice Details
2026-05-25Retired, 142 days ago gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview Replace with gemini-3.1-flash-lite Official notice Details
2026-04-30Retired, 167 days ago gemini-robotics-er-1.5-preview Replace with gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview Official notice Details
2026-03-31Retired, 197 days ago gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 Replace with gemini-3.1-flash-lite Official notice Details
2026-03-09Retired, 219 days ago gemini-3-pro-preview Replace with gemini-3.1-pro-preview Official notice Details
2026-02-17Retired, 239 days ago gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-25 Replace with gemini-3.6-flash Official notice Details
2026-02-17Retired, 239 days ago imagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06 Replace with imagen-4.0-generate-001 Official notice Details
2026-02-17Retired, 239 days ago imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-preview-06-06 Replace with imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 Official notice Details
2026-01-15Retired, 272 days ago gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview Replace with gemini-nano-banana-2.1 Official notice Details
2026-01-14Retired, 273 days ago text-embedding-004 Replace with gemini-embedding-2 Official notice Details
2025-12-09Retired, 309 days ago gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview Replace with gemini-2.5-flash-lite Official notice Details
2025-12-09Retired, 309 days ago gemini-2.0-flash-lite-preview-02-05 Replace with gemini-2.5-flash-lite Official notice Details
2025-12-09Retired, 309 days ago gemini-2.0-flash-live-001 Replace with gemini-3.8-live Official notice Details
2025-12-09Retired, 309 days ago gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview Replace with gemini-3.8-live Official notice Details
2025-12-02Retired, 316 days ago gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 Replace with gemini-3.1-pro-preview Official notice Details
2025-12-02Retired, 316 days ago gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06 Replace with gemini-3.1-pro-preview Official notice Details
2025-12-02Retired, 316 days ago gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 Replace with gemini-3.1-pro-preview Official notice Details
2025-11-18Retired, 330 days ago gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20 Replace with gemini-3.6-flash Official notice Details
2025-11-14Retired, 334 days ago gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation Replace with gemini-nano-banana-2.1 Official notice Details
2025-11-12Retired, 336 days ago veo-3.0-fast-generate-preview Replace with veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview Official notice Details
2025-11-12Retired, 336 days ago veo-3.0-generate-preview Replace with veo-3.1-generate-preview Official notice Details
2025-11-10Retired, 338 days ago imagen-3.0-generate-002 Replace with imagen-4.0-generate-001 Official notice Details
2025-10-30Retired, 349 days ago embedding-001 Replace with gemini-embedding-2 Official notice Details
2025-10-30Retired, 349 days ago embedding-gecko-001 Replace with gemini-embedding-2 Official notice Details
2025-10-30Retired, 349 days ago gemini-embedding-exp Replace with gemini-embedding-2 Official notice Details
2025-10-30Retired, 349 days ago gemini-embedding-exp-03-07 Replace with gemini-embedding-2 Official notice Details

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