# gemini-1.5-flash-8b-001

Calls to the model gemini-1.5-flash-8b-001 on Gemini API stopped working on September 29, 2025.

- API: Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
- Model: gemini-1.5-flash-8b-001
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: September 29, 2025
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model gemini-1.5-flash-8b-001`
- Source: [models.dev](https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/models.json?provider=google)
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/gemini-api/gemini-1.5-flash-8b-001/

## What to use instead

Move to gemini-3.5-flash-lite. Our suggestion, not Google's: the release notes that record the shutdown name no successor. Flash-Lite is the tier that took over the small, cheap slot after 1.5.