The Gemini 2.5 Pro option in AI Studio has disappeared

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@Sai_Deepika_K, could you please explain what “we are limiting access to the 2.5 models to users who have actively used them in the past” actually means?

I don’t have any projects as I don’t use api keys. I interacted with Gemini 2.5 pro in the Playground workspace. I used this model everyday but very moderately. So, your message says Google limited access to 2.5 for users who used it? What is the logic in this statement? And if it’s not deprecated but access is limited for PAID subscriptions, for whom is it available now and where?

Could you please also give this dev community links to official Google announcement about this restriction of access to Gemini 2.5 pro?

All developers here are paying for this precise 2.5 pro model.

Can we receive thorough explanations from Google as soon as possible?

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Please stop responding with the same copy-and-paste message to fool your users. It is obvious that many people here are exactly the so-called “active Gemini 2.5 Pro users.” Otherwise, so many people would not be here asking you to keep Gemini 2.5 Pro. The fact is that everyone’s Gemini 2.5 Pro option has disappeared. We don’t even have the option to continue using it by paying extra ourselves, yet you are still repeating what is clearly a false narrative to mislead your users.

I have personally followed a discussion with hundreds of comments online, and not a single person has said they still have access to Gemini 2.5 Pro in AI Studio. If you really are continuing to provide access to the so-called “active users” you keep referring to, then please explain exactly what your definition of an “active user” is, and clearly disclose how many users currently meet that definition and what percentage of your total user base they represent.

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Restore access to Gemini 2.5 Pro. At the very least, users should be allowed to continue using it until October 20, the earliest retirement date that Google previously communicated.

Many people here are not only upset because Gemini 2.5 Pro suddenly became unavailable in AI Studio, but also because of Google’s arrogant attitude toward its users. Gemini 2.5 Pro was removed without any prior warning and without following the timeline Google had previously communicated, leaving users with no buffer period whatsoever.

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But he literally says that they limited access to those who USED ACTIVELY 2.5 pro model. It’s an absolutely ridiculous statement.

As you can read above I asked him to provide official Google documents explaining this change in our Google One subscriptions. But of course he is silent.

Maybe all these Google employees are just forum bots?!

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I agree. They’re actually worse than AI customer service bots. At least AI support bots sometimes adapt their replies and genuinely try to respond. These so-called Google employees do nothing but mindlessly copy and paste the same scripted template.

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And there is still no progress on my ticket…

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I have three opened tickets and I remind the support about them every single day. Still have no answer, only “we are in the process of investigating”.

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But I think they do it on purpose, they just are stalling their answer. Time will pass and they will say something about deprecation, I suppose.

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Gemini 3.1 pro is gone from AI Build too on ai studio crazy because 3.8 flash is terrible.

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How about you bring 2.5 pro back instead like what Claude does with their legacy Opus 3?

I made another ticket addressing this exact problem:

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How stressed out can we get over all of this change? Well I hit my limits, my Zbook Graphics cards rendered there last Interface. :gemini: AND MY 2.5 Isn’t there to code inside the hardware fix to keep it alive and me out of the ditch. CLI doesn’t know my gear and i cant explain its limits or auth, if there isnt a standard antigravity, hello reply with limits set so low it cant run… still around 1.5 !!, 3.8 can’t keep its keys straight.. And me,well im a modern day Basket Case!! App deploy dates, maybe this was a pipe dream, Data streams,whole country gets meen. It sees through walls, pythons it calls And Sam gets scared Its Dario Wall of gaurdrails parameters and Its Mind made of Claude, he names her Bonnie. First wish was The Illuminati. Gemini ask for only some help while he preaches sovereignty and Modern day Codes and helps Everybody… They will get it soon. Thers alot going on Devs. Laughs for my teammates.

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In the meantime Google support messages me that their “backend team is investigating the issues still” and we need to wait some more time, though they don’t know how long.

I asked them how to contact that backend team directly. Still have no answer.

I suspect that no backend team is working on our problem at all. It’s just a trick to make us wait patiently.

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@Payal_Sharma2 @Logan_Kilpatrick @Mahesh_Sutar @Mustan_lokhand @Aakash_Bansal @Jon_Matthews @Sai_Deepika_K @Pooja_Kapse

Kindly take this issue to your higher authorities and Reach a Solution for us by bringing the Gemini 2.5 Pro Back in the AI Studio Playground.

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@Payal_Sharma2 @Logan_Kilpatrick @Mahesh_Sutar @Mustan_lokhand @Aakash_Bansal @Jon_Matthews @Sai_Deepika_K @Pooja_Kapse

Kindly take this issue to your higher authorities and Reach a Solution for us by bringing the Gemini 2.5 Pro Back in the AI Studio Playground.

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Guys, I actually found the source of that template message we have here from those “Google employees”.

Have a look: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-2.5-pro

And there is a link there “Try it in AI Studio”. And… there is nothing to try there, right?

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Friends, I’ve posted an article about this on X. If you can, please help by sharing your own story on X as well, so more people can see what we have been through and how Google has treated its users. Thank you.

Google should honor its own retirement timeline and restore Gemini 2.5 Pro access in AI Studio, at least until the earliest retirement date it previously communicated.

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Got it in an email two weeks ago

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Google, you have broken the entire development experience.

At this point, I genuinely see no reason to continue serious development on Google AI Studio until Google itself decides what exactly it is building, which models it intends to support, and what kind of development platform it wants AI Studio to become.

I run my own AI lab and have been actively testing, researching, and working with Google’s AI models and coding environments for almost two years. I know this platform extremely well. I notice every small behavioral change, every model transition, every regression, every improvement, and every change in agent behavior.

What is happening now is not a minor quality fluctuation.

It is a regression.

The current development experience feels dramatically less stable, less predictable, and less intelligent than what we had before.

Agents repeat the same operations. They reread files unnecessarily. They enter loops. They lose context. They make changes that were never requested. They consume excessive quota. They take far longer to complete simple tasks. They sometimes break code that previously working models handled correctly. And, worst of all, developers can no longer trust that the same workflow will behave consistently from one week to the next.

That destroys productivity.

A development platform cannot constantly change the model, agent layer, tool behavior, quota system, and available model lineup while expecting developers to build serious software on top of it.

Developers need stability.

We need predictable model behavior. We need reliable tool execution. We need consistent access to capable models. We need clear communication when models are removed or replaced. We need backward compatibility. And we need to know whether a workflow that works today will still work tomorrow.

Right now, it feels like developers are being used as beta testers for a platform that is being redesigned underneath us in real time.

I am tired of being a guinea pig.

I have invested enormous amounts of time studying Google’s models, understanding their strengths and weaknesses, adapting workflows, building systems around them, and learning how to get the best results from AI Studio.

But there is a limit.

When a platform becomes unstable enough that experienced users start questioning whether the model has suddenly become less capable, something is seriously wrong.

The problem is no longer just model quality.

The problem is trust.

Until Google stabilizes AI Studio, clarifies its model strategy, fixes the current agent regressions, and stops constantly changing the ground underneath developers, I see very little value in continuing serious development there.

Google has extraordinary AI technology.

But extraordinary models are not enough.

A serious development platform also needs consistency, reliability, transparency, and respect for the developers who build on it.

Right now, Google AI Studio is failing on those fundamentals.

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Could you please explain what you mean?