Google Vertex AI Model Deprecation & EOL Lifecycle Hub
Monitor all 68 normalized Google Vertex AI lifecycle records (9 deprecated, 40 retired, 19 active). Audit VERTEX_MODEL variables in the Local .env Auditor or compare replacement costs in DevToken.
Google Vertex AI publishes model deprecation and retirement dates independently from third-party cloud hosters. Pin exact dated snapshots in VERTEX_MODEL or vertex_ai/ LiteLLM routes and validate upgrades against this isolated Google Vertex AI catalog.
1. Interactive Google Vertex AI Lifecycle Schedule (68)
| Model ID | Provider | Calculated Status | Confirmed Shutdown (UTC) | Vendor Lifecycle | Replacement & Migration | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gemini-3.6-flash |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | DEPRECATED (7d) | 2026-11-19in 7d | Deprecated | Docs ↗ | |
claude-sonnet-4-5 |
Google Vertex AIPartner Models | DEPRECATED (18d) | 2026-11-30in 18d | DeprecatedDep: 2026-09-29 | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | DEPRECATED (31d) | 2026-12-13in 31d | Deprecated | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-3.7-flash |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | DEPRECATED (77d) | 2027-01-28in 77d | Deprecated | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-2.5-flash-image |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | DEPRECATED (123d) | 2027-03-15in 123d | Deprecated | Docs ↗ | |
multimodalembedding@001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | DEPRECATED (140d) | 2027-04-01in 140d | Deprecated | Docs ↗ | |
text-embedding-004 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | DEPRECATED (140d) | 2027-04-01in 140d | Deprecated | Docs ↗ | |
text-embedding-005 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | DEPRECATED (140d) | 2027-04-01in 140d | Deprecated | Docs ↗ | |
text-multilingual-embedding-002 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | DEPRECATED (140d) | 2027-04-01in 140d | Deprecated | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-2.5-flash |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-10-2023d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-2.5-flash-lite |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-10-2023d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-2.5-pro |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-10-2023d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
claude-3-haiku |
Google Vertex AIPartner Models | RETIRED | 2026-08-2381d ago | RetiredDep: 2026-02-23 | Docs ↗ | |
claude-3-5-haiku |
Google Vertex AIPartner Models | RETIRED | 2026-07-05130d ago | RetiredDep: 2026-01-05 | Docs ↗ | |
imagegeneration@002 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
imagegeneration@003 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
imagegeneration@004 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
imagegeneration@005 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
imagegeneration@006 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
imagen-3.0-generate-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
imagen-3.0-generate-002 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
imagen-4.0-generate-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
veo-2.0-generate-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
veo-3.0-fast-generate-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
veo-3.0-generate-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-30135d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-2.0-flash |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-01164d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-2.0-flash-lite |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2026-06-01164d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
claude-3-7-sonnet |
Google Vertex AIPartner Models | RETIRED | 2026-05-11185d ago | RetiredDep: 2025-11-11 | Docs ↗ | |
jamba-1.5-large |
Google Vertex AIPartner Models | RETIRED | 2026-02-27258d ago | RetiredDep: 2025-08-27 | Docs ↗ | |
jamba-1.5-mini |
Google Vertex AIPartner Models | RETIRED | 2026-02-27258d ago | RetiredDep: 2025-08-27 | Docs ↗ | |
claude-3-5-sonnet |
Google Vertex AIPartner Models | RETIRED | 2026-02-19266d ago | RetiredDep: 2025-08-20 | Docs ↗ | |
claude-3-5-sonnet-v2 |
Google Vertex AIPartner Models | RETIRED | 2026-02-19266d ago | RetiredDep: 2025-08-20 | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-1.5-flash-002 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-09-24414d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-1.5-pro-002 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-09-24414d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
imagetext |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-09-24414d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
claude-3-opus |
Google Vertex AIPartner Models | RETIRED | 2025-08-01468d ago | RetiredDep: 2025-06-30 | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-1.5-flash-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-05-24537d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-1.5-pro-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-05-24537d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
textembedding-gecko-multilingual@001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-05-24537d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
textembedding-gecko@003\* |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-05-24537d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
chat-bison |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-04-21570d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
code-gecko |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-04-21570d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-1.0-pro-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-04-21570d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-1.0-pro-002 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-04-21570d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-1.0-pro-vision-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-04-21570d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
text-bison |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-04-21570d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
textembedding-gecko@001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-04-21570d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
textembedding-gecko@002 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | RETIRED | 2025-04-21570d ago | Retired | Docs ↗ | |
gemini-3-pro-image |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-3.1-flash-image |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-3.1-flash-lite |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-3.5-flash |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-3.5-flash-lite |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-3.8-flash |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-3.8-flash-cyber |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-3.8-live |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-4-argon |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-4-argon-cyber-permissive |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-4-carbon |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-4-carbon-cyber-permissive |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-embedding-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-embedding-2 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-nano-banana-2.1 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
gemini-omni-1.2-flash |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | — | — |
veo-3.1-fast-generate-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | gemini-omni-1.2-flash
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veo-3.1-generate-001 |
Google Vertex AIGemini Models | ACTIVE | No EOL | Active | gemini-omni-1.2-flash
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2. Canonical Google Vertex AI Migration Guides (13)
Open family-level migration guides covering Google Vertex AI model identifiers alongside sibling cloud platforms, complete with interactive .env replacement diffs.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
DEPRECATED (1d)Claude 3.5 Haiku
RETIREDClaude 3 Opus
RETIREDClaude 3 Haiku
DEPRECATED (1d)Claude Sonnet 4.5 & 4.6
DEPRECATED (18d)Gemini 1.0 Pro & PaLM 2 Bison
RETIREDGemini 1.5 Pro
RETIREDGemini 1.5 Flash
RETIREDGemini 2.0 Flash & Flash-Lite
RETIREDGemini 2.5 Pro
DEPRECATED (5d)Gemini 2.5 Flash & Flash-Lite
DEPRECATED (5d)Google Text & Gemini Embeddings (004 / Gecko)
DEPRECATED (140d)Run this zero-key curl + jq check in CI pipelines to block deprecated or retired Google Vertex AI model IDs against GET /api/v1/eol.json, or subscribe via RSS, Atom, and iCal.
curl -fsSL https://eol.codeap.com/api/v1/eol.json | jq -e \
--arg prov "google-vertex" \
--arg models "gemini-3.6-flash,claude-sonnet-4-5" '
($models | split(",") | map(ascii_downcase)) as $targets
| [.models[]
| select(.providerKey == $prov)
| select((.modelId | ascii_downcase) as $id | $targets | index($id))
| select(.status == "deprecated" or .status == "retired")]
| if length > 0 then
(map("BLOCKED: \(.provider) \(.modelId) [\(.status | ascii_upcase)] EOL=\(.eolDate // "n/a") -> \(.replacementModel // "none")") | .[] | stderr), halt_error(1)
else "PASS: zero deprecated/retired " + $prov + " models." end
'
4. Google Vertex AI Deprecation & Migration FAQ
How many Google Vertex AI models are currently deprecated or retired in LLMEOL?
LLMEOL currently tracks 68 Google Vertex AI model entries: 9 deprecated models with upcoming shutdowns, 40 retired models that have passed their UTC EOL date, and 19 active models with no announced shutdown date.
How should engineering teams audit Google Vertex AI model IDs in .env and LiteLLM files?
Set VERTEX_MODEL in .env files or use the vertex_ai/ prefix in LiteLLM router configs, then paste your snippet into the Local Model Config Auditor to flag retired and deprecated Google Vertex AI snapshots with zero network upload.
Can CI pipelines block deprecated Google Vertex AI models automatically without an API key?
Yes. Query https://eol.codeap.com/api/v1/eol.json with curl and jq filtered by providerKey to fail pull requests whenever a configured Google Vertex AI model enters DEPRECATED or RETIRED state.