Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05 06: the May 6 preview is retired; subsequent Gemini 2.5 Pro releases superseded it

The OnAirToday AI Progress Tracker recorded a verified change to Google DeepMind's Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05 06 (version gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06): The May 6 preview is retired; subsequent Gemini 2.5 Pro releases superseded it.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05 06 was a multimodal reasoning model emphasizing coding, frontend development, and long-context analysis. This dated preview has been retired and superseded by subsequent Gemini 2.5 Pro releases; its specifications and prices are historical rather than a current deployment offering.

What changed in this review:

• Added historical base API prices, distinguished from current availability.
• Retained the published Aider Polyglot result; omitted benchmark figures without an exact model-specific result citation.
• Added Google's documented earlier-Gemini misuse case, explicitly distinguished from this preview.
• Flaws and limitations updated
• Risks and threats updated

Teams building on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05 06 should confirm limits, pricing and benchmark coverage against the vendor's own documentation before relying on these figures.

The full profile — capabilities, benchmark citations, known flaws and risk guidance — is on the tracker at /ai-models/gemini-2-5-pro-preview-05-06.

References:

• https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-improved-coding-performance/
• https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog
• https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
• https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/#polyglot-leaderboard