---
title: "Google Gemini API imagen-3.0-generate-002 shutdown 2025-11-10 | Harbyn"
description: "Google Gemini API imagen-3.0-generate-002 shutdown 2025-11-10; replacement: imagen-4.0-generate-001."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/google-gemini/2026-09-21-imagen-3-0-generate-002-shutdown-2025-11-10"
last-updated: 2026-09-21
---

# Google Gemini API imagen-3.0-generate-002 shutdown 2025-11-10

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/google-gemini/2026-09-21-imagen-3-0-generate-002-shutdown-2025-11-10>.

Retirement - Google Gemini API. high severity. In effect. History: recorded after the fact.

Google lists imagen-3.0-generate-002 with a shutdown date of 2025-11-10 (were scheduled to shut down; Google states listed dates are the earliest possible dates and the exact date is communicated in advance). Recommended replacement: imagen-4.0-generate-001.

The deadline passed on Nov 10, 2025.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [Google Gemini API](https://harbyn.com/vendors/google-gemini.md) |
| Product | models |
| Kind | Retirement |
| Severity | high |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Sep 21, 2026 (undated by the vendor; already published when we first read the page) |
| Effective | Nov 10, 2025 |
| Added to Harbyn | Sep 21, 2026 |
| Lead time | Recorded after the fact: added 315 days after the deadline |
| Model IDs | `imagen-3.0-generate-002` |
| Replacement | `imagen-4.0-generate-001` |
| Review | Automated, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

The scanner reads your repository on your machine and reports every file and line that uses the identifiers above, with the replacement. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations.md.txt> (deprecations, fetched 2026-09-21 03:10 UTC, sha256 `6fdd586c0b760d283be6b7429a77e8a623ee6cff47a7f486d084b66cc75ce712`)

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