Is Gemini (Google) Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of gemini.google.com plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-07-22

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Known issues we've tracked

NEW MODELS -- GEMINI 3.6 FLASH + 3.5 FLASH-LITE + 3.5 FLASH CYBER GA (2026-07-21, vendor post): Google shipped the 'upgraded Flash stopgap' it had flagged while Gemini 3.5 Pro stayed delayed. **Gemini 3.6 Flash** -- improved workhorse for coding/knowledge/multimodal at **$1.50/M input, $7.50/M output** (a ~17% output price cut vs 3.5 Flash's $9), uses **17% fewer output tokens** than 3.5 Flash, up to +65% on DeepSWE and 49% vs 37% on certain code tasks; live day-one across the Gemini API (AI Studio, Android Studio), Google Antigravity, the Gemini app, and GitHub Copilot. **Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite** -- fastest 3.5-class model at **$0.30/M input, $2.50/M output**, **350 output tokens/sec**, 54% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (vs 31% prior); on Gemini API + Enterprise + rolling out in Google Search. **Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber** -- a security-tuned model for finding/fixing vulnerabilities paired with the CodeMender agent, gov/trusted-partner-only via a limited-access pilot (no public pricing). CRUCIAL: Gemini 3.5 **Pro did NOT ship** here -- Google says it is 'currently testing 3.5 Pro with partners' and will release it 'as soon as it's ready' (still no date). Google also disclosed it has 'started our most ambitious pre-training run yet, for **Gemini 4**' (pre-training only, no specs, no date)
2026-07-21•Google (blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/), TechCrunch (2026-07-21), 9to5Google, GitHub Copilot changelog (2026-07-21)
GEMINI 3.5 PRO DELAY NOW VENDOR-SIDE CONFIRMED (2026-07-16, Bloomberg): Google is reportedly **months behind schedule** on Gemini 3.5 Pro -- Bloomberg's sourcing says the model's capabilities, 'particularly in coding,' fell short of internal goals, and a late-June remediation attempt (updated training data) produced 'disappointing' results. This is the third missed window (June -> the aggregator-only 'July 17' -> TBD), and press reports the delay news knocked ~$200B off Alphabet's market value on 7/16. Google's own statement: it is 'currently testing 3.5 Pro, an upgraded Flash model, and other models with partners' -- so an upgraded Flash stopgap may ship first. The 'July 17' date circulating on aggregators was never Google-confirmed. Treat all 3.5 Pro capability claims as unshipped. SEPARATE COMMUNITY WATCH (unconfirmed, do not treat as vendor fact): devs on Google's official AI forum report `gemini-2.5-flash` returning 'no longer available' 404s starting ~7/9, three months ahead of its published Oct 16, 2026 shutdown date -- no Google response in-thread yet; could be a bug or partial rollout. If you depend on 2.5 Flash, verify availability directly
2026-07-16•Bloomberg (2026-07-16), 9to5Google (9to5google.com/2026/07/16/gemini-3-5-pro-delays/), LA Times (2026-07-17), discuss.ai.google.dev thread 174217 (community, unconfirmed)
GEMINI SPARK ON MACOS (2026-06-30/07-01): Google's agentic assistant Gemini Spark launched on the Mac Gemini app in beta -- Google AI Ultra subscribers, 18+, US only (gemini.google/mac). Local file automation, MCP support, and new connected apps: Canva, Dropbox, Instacart, OpenTable, Zillow Rentals, plus Google Tasks/Keep. Google's answer to Claude desktop agents and OpenAI's Codex/Operator surface war on the desktop
2026-07-01•blog.google (blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-spark-updates-june-2026/), TechCrunch 2026-07-01
NEW MEDIA MODELS (2026-06-30, vendor post): Google shipped **Nano Banana 2 Lite** (`gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image`) and **Gemini Omni Flash** (`gemini-omni-flash-preview`) to AI Studio, the Gemini API, and the Enterprise Agent Platform. Nano Banana 2 Lite is Google's 'fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model' -- text-to-image in ~4 seconds at **$0.034 per 1K-resolution image** (coming to AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, NotebookLM, and Google Photos). Gemini Omni Flash does video generation + conversational (natural-language) video editing and multimodal referencing at **$0.10 per second of video output** (10-second clips at launch, longer coming); SynthID watermarked. Both target high-volume, low-latency workflows. See the nano-banana and veo pages for detail.
2026-06-30•blog.google (blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni-flash-nano-banana-2-lite/)
API SHUTDOWNS NOW IN EFFECT (dates passed as of this review): the older media model IDs announced 6/15 have retired on schedule -- **Veo 2.0 + Veo 3.0 shut down 2026-06-30** (migrate to Veo 3.1) and the **Nano Banana preview image IDs `gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview` + `gemini-3-pro-image-preview` shut down 2026-06-25** (use the GA `gemini-3.1-flash-image` / `gemini-3-pro-image`). Pinned calls to any of these legacy IDs are now failing. **Imagen 4.0 models (`imagen-4.0-generate-001`, `-ultra-`, `-fast-`) still shut down 2026-08-17** (→ `gemini-3.1-flash-image`).
2026-06-30•Gemini API changelog + deprecations (ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations)
AGENT CAPABILITY (2026-06-24): Google added **native computer use to Gemini 3.5 Flash** -- the model can see, reason, and act across desktop, mobile, and browser environments, aimed at building long-horizon enterprise automation agents. Puts Gemini 3.5 Flash into direct competition with Anthropic computer use and OpenAI's Operator/Codex computer-use tooling.
2026-06-24•blog.google (blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-gemini-3-5-flash/)

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Gemini (Google) is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

A

Muse Spark (Meta)

8.8

Meta's frontier model line from its Superintelligence Lab -- Muse Spark 1.1 (2026-07-09) adds substantially better coding, 1M-token multi-agent orchestration, and Meta's first paid developer API (Meta Model API, public preview)

A

Claude (Anthropic)

8.5

Anthropic's flagship LLM family. After a 19-day US-government export-control suspension (June 12-30), Claude Fable 5 -- the first publicly available Mythos-class model -- returned globally on July 1, 2026. New on June 30: Claude Sonnet 5, the 'most agentic Sonnet yet,' now the default on Free/Pro at $2/$10 per 1M (intro through Aug 31, then $3/$15). Opus 4.8 remains the top-end flagship at $5/$25 per 1M with a 1M-token context, effort control, and a cheap fast mode

A

MiMo (Xiaomi)

8.3

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 family launched 2026-04-22 -- Pro (1T total / 42B active MoE, 1M context, native vision+audio reasoning), Multimodal base, TTS (3 sub-models: base, VoiceDesign, VoiceClone), and ASR (open-source, English + Chinese + major dialects). Full voice pipeline for the agent era. Extra-charge 1M-context tier removed at launch

A

Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3)

8.1

Tencent's Hy3 reached GA 2026-07-06 (upgraded from the April preview) -- 295B total / 21B active MoE, 256K context, now Apache 2.0 open weights on HuggingFace + ModelScope with the EU/UK/South Korea restriction lifted. ~90% agent-task completion on Tencent's internal apps; API via Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Integrated into Yuanbao, WeChat, QQ

B

Grok

7.5

SpaceXAI's irreverent chatbot with a direct line to X/Twitter -- and now Grok 4.5 (launched 2026-07-08), the frontier MoE model trained jointly with Cursor for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work at $2/$6 per 1M tokens. Grok 4.3 remains the value tier at $1.25/$2.50

About Gemini (Google)

Tier A (8.3/10). Google's LLM with deep Google Workspace integration, 2M token context window, and native code execution -- Gemini 3.6 Flash + 3.5 Flash-Lite GA 2026-07-21 (the 'upgraded Flash stopgap'; 3.6 Flash at $1.50/$7.50 per 1M, 17% fewer output tokens), Gemini 3.5 Pro STILL delayed and partner-testing-only (Bloomberg, 7/16 -- coding shortfalls, no ship date), Gemini 4 pre-training now underway

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