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Google lists October 16 as Gemini 2.5 Pro’s earliest possible shutdown date
Google lists October 16, 2026 as the earliest possible shutdown date for Gemini 2.5 Pro and names gemini-3.1-pro-preview as the recommended replacement. Google says users will receive advance notice of the exact retirement date.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- Launch date
- July 23, 2026
- Launch type
- Major Update
- Category
- AI Developer Tools
- Audience
- AI Engineers, Developers
- Pricing
- The deprecation notice has no separate charge. Gemini 2.5 Pro offers free-tier input and output tokens. Paid standard rates are $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens for prompts up to 200,000 tokens, rising to $2.50 and $15 above that threshold.
- Free plan
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Open weights/source
- No
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Verification & Sources
- Status
- Verified
- Source links
- 2
- Freshness
- Verified July 27, 2026
- Last verified
- July 27, 2026
- Last updated
- July 27, 2026
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Kingy AI Take
Treat October 16 as a migration deadline to plan around, not a guaranteed retirement day. Google labels it the earliest possible shutdown date for Gemini 2.5 Pro and points developers to gemini-3.1-pro-preview, so production teams should test the preview replacement before committing capacity or behavior assumptions.
Who it is for
Developers, AI engineers, and platform teams running Gemini 2.5 Pro through the Gemini API, especially production teams that need to validate and migrate workloads before retirement.
What feels promising
Google names a replacement model and says users will receive advance notice of the exact shutdown date, giving teams a concrete migration target and another notification before retirement.
What feels unproven
gemini-3.1-pro-preview is still a preview model, and the deprecation page does not establish parity for workload behavior, quotas, latency or production capacity. The exact shutdown date is also not yet fixed.
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