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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.
Fair point-my mistake on citing just Enterprise Agent Platform email and not extrapolating. That note clearly distinguishes Enterprise from Al Studio deprecation dates sure:
*My broader point was about the rollout pattern: itās standard practice across developer platforms to soft-deprecate or remove older models from the Ul playground first. The Studio Ul is designed for kicking off new prototypes, so pulling it from the frontend dropdown prevents developers from building new projects on a legacy model, while keeping the API endpoints live so existing codebases donāt break.
That said, I completely get why itās frustrating when it disappears from the workbench without an upfront Ul banner while youāre still relying on it to debug API but they are completely at liberty to remove anything from AI studio at will. You agreed to this.
Clearly, I did not agree to that. If I had, I wouldnāt be here asking for an explanation in the first place.
I think it is basic common senseāand basic respect for usersāthat when a company makes a decision that will significantly affect people, such as discontinuing a model, it should provide advance notice and a clear removal date.
Fair enough apologies for the blunt phrasing on the terms. Advance notice is always better for workflow planning, and I get why having it vanish from the UI without a banner feels jarring.
To clarify my main point: Gemini 2.5 Pro hasnāt actually been discontinued or shut down.
The model is still fully alive and serving traffic right now. I still will have it on my projects until atleast January. Google only removed it from the AI Studio frontend dropdown picker. If you have projects running on 2.5 Pro or need to query it, the API endpoints and SDKs still accept calls to gemini-2.5-pro-lite=etc without issue.
Again itās definitely inconvenient if you rely on the Studio web interface as a scratchpad, but your actual workloads and access arenāt cut off. Hopefully DevRel can chime in on whether the UI drop was intentional or an accidental bug. Best 
I think you should understand that just because you personally were not affected does not mean that other people were not affected.
You also seem to agree that Google should not remove something arbitrarily without notice, so Iām not sure why you are using your own experience here to explain away what Google did.
Of course we know that the API is still temporarily available. That is not what we are talking about. Our complaint is that Gemini 2.5 Pro was suddenly removed from AI Studio without prior notice or warning, and that this caused serious disruption for us. Even now, the responses we have received have been dismissive and inadequate. The problem is not only the removal itself, but also Googleās attitude and the way users have been treated.
We are asking for access to be restored at least until the earliest deprecation date Google itself communicated publicly. Is that really an unreasonable request?
At this point, we are not even discussing the same thing. If you are not familiar with what actually happened, perhaps it would be better to understand the situation first before expressing your opinion.
Understood, and I appreciate the clarification. Weāre looking at AI Studioās role in the development workflow from different angles, and I didnāt mean to minimize the disruption to how you use the workbench.
Iāll step aside and let DevRel address the request to restore the picker. Hope you get a clear answer from them soon.
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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.
@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.
Yeah, and this wonāt end until something changes or Gemini 4 outperforms 2.5 Pro, at least. I wouldnāt be here if Gemini Pro models were on par with their Claude Opus counterparts. I made a point about how model deprecation should work for groundbreaking models. Please help out by bringing attention to this thread.
Still have no news from Google support. They are āinvestigatingā.
@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.
Update from my interaction with Google support: they just closed one of my tickets saying there is no point to have many opened ones. Still no results though.
Thanks for the free bump and the extra engagementāreally appreciate you helping us keep this thread right at the top of the front page.
Gemini 2.5 Pro has a very unique texture to its outputs that just canāt be replaced by stronger models or anything else out there.
I once did a side-by-side test, and 2.5 Pro delivered miraculous results, whereas models from other companiesāor even newer Gemini releasesādidnāt perform as well. There are countless edge cases like this. If Google retires 2.5 Pro, all of that research value will be completely lost.
A model that debuted at #1 across all categories on the Arena, achieved the biggest score jump in history (40 points), and held the top spot for over seven months is a true milestone. It absolutely deserves to be preserved, both for Googleās brand reputation and for its historical value in model research.
Google should keep Gemini 2.5 Pro available long-term.
Totally agree. 3.1 pro is far from 2.5 pro.
@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.
Anthropic has permanently preserved Opus 3, which is loved by many people. weill Gemini 2.5 Pro is an equally or even more beloved model that has driven tremendous success for Google, Google has every reason to consider keeping it available for long term use.
and such a sudden change in availability shows a complete lack of respect for users.
Thanks.
Absolutely. And we all are paying for our subscription. Thatās why itās especially infuriating. If Google changes anything it should make official announcements.
@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.