Is `gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17` no longer available?

I’ve been using this amazing model for quite a while now. Now it suddenly stopped working and returns

500 INTERNAL. {‘error’: {‘code’: 500, ‘message’: ‘An internal error has occurred. Please retry or report in Troubleshooting guide  |  Gemini API  |  Google AI for Developers’, ‘status’: ‘INTERNAL’}

each time I am trying to run it. On https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/troubleshooting page it is written that

Your input context is too long.

But this cannot be the case, as all I send to it is a couple of python files that are not that big. I cannot see the model in the AI studio anymore, although it is still present on ‘All models’ and ‘Rate limits’ page in Documentation. This should not be the issue with the rate limit, as they are daily and I haven’t been using the model for more than 24 hours.

I should say that I have been using this model in some evolutionary algorithm that required a lot of requests in total and it was working fine for several days working pretty well for me. So I might just be banned for ‘abusing’ the model, but I assume the error should be different in this case.

I’m trying to understand if this is me or the service. Is the model working for anybody else?

P.S. Other models are working just fine, but I really do need this particular one.

Hi @Alex_K , Welcome to the forum.

The model gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 is still available, it seems like an intermittent issue. You can try again after some time, it should work.

Thanks

@GUNAND_MAYANGLAMBAM Yes. Everything is working fine now. Thank you for help.