gemini-2.5-flash-image shuts down on 2027-03-15 per Google Vertex AI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-17). The official replacement is gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image. On the labeled example of 10 million input tokens and 2 million output tokens, gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image costs $5.5 a month, lower than $8 for gemini-2.5-flash-image.
deprecated
| Announced | Not published |
|---|---|
| Deprecated | Not published |
| Shutdown | 2027-03-15 |
| Kind | exact |
Release date on the Vertex model versions page: 2025-10-02.
See the replacement diff · Google Vertex AI models
| Input price / 1M | $0.3 · source, checked 2026-10-17 |
|---|---|
| Output price / 1M | $2.5 · source, checked 2026-10-17 |
| Cached input / 1M | Not published |
| Context window | 32,768 · source, checked 2026-10-17 |
| Max output | 32,768 · source, checked 2026-10-17 |
| Reasoning | Not published |
| Vision | Not published |
| Tools | Not published |
gemini-2.5-flash-image shuts down on 2027-03-15 per Google Vertex AI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-17). The official replacement is gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image. On the labeled example of 10 million input tokens and 2 million output tokens, gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image costs $5.5 a month, lower than $8 for gemini-2.5-flash-image.
The official replacement is gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image.
gemini-2.5-flash-image status is deprecated.
gemini-2.5-flash-image | October 2, 2025 | March 15, 2027 | gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image | gemini-2.5-flash-image | context window 32768 | maximum output tokens 32768
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Input (text, image)*** $0.3 per 1M tokens for the <= 200K column