Replacement for gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio: what changes when you switch

No official replacement is published on that page. gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio shuts down on 2026-12-13 per Google Vertex AI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-17). Published on the official docs: context window 128,000 tokens, max output 64,000 tokens.

gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio model page · Google Vertex AI

A migration diff is not published because the official page did not name a replacement model id.

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Sources

• Vertex AI model versions — checked 2026-10-17
• Vertex model docs — checked 2026-10-17