--- title: "Google Vertex AI text-embedding-004/005, text-multilingual-embedding-002 and multimodalembedding@001 retire on 2027-04-01 | Harbyn" description: "Google Vertex AI text-embedding-004/005, text-multilingual-embedding-002 and multimodalembedding@001 retire on 2027-04-01." canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/vertex-ai/2026-10-09-embedding-models-scheduled-for-retirement" last-updated: 2026-10-09 --- # Google Vertex AI text-embedding-004/005, text-multilingual-embedding-002 and multimodalembedding@001 retire on 2027-04-01 Markdown version of . Retirement - Google Vertex AI. high severity. Announced. Upcoming. The Vertex AI model lifecycle page lists text-embedding-005, text-embedding-004, text-multilingual-embedding-002 and multimodalembedding@001 with a retirement date of April 1, 2027. Google says retirement dates may be extended but not moved earlier. No replacement model is listed. 158 days left: the deadline is Apr 1, 2027. ## Facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | [Google Vertex AI](https://harbyn.com/vendors/vertex-ai.md) | | Kind | Retirement | | Severity | high | | Status | Announced | | Announced | Oct 9, 2026 (undated by the vendor; already published when we first read the page) | | Effective | Apr 1, 2027 | | Added to Harbyn | Oct 9, 2026 | | Lead time | 174 days of warning | | Model IDs | `text-embedding-005`, `text-multilingual-embedding-002`, `multimodalembedding@001` | | Symbols | `text-embedding-004` | | Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model | ## 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. Nothing leaves your machine. ## Sources Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot. - (deprecations, fetched 2026-10-09 06:16 UTC, sha256 `24d1fd4be0bf2b0cfc1d0f213ef42d4a0c7ffec639f92d0e075e028c5565ec2b`) ## Related changes ### More from Google Vertex AI - [gemini-2.5-flash-image retires on March 15, 2027](https://harbyn.com/changes/vertex-ai/2026-10-09-gemini-2-5-flash-image-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (Retirement, effective Mar 15, 2027) - [gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash and gemini-2.5-flash-lite retire on October 20, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/vertex-ai/2026-10-09-gemini-2-5-models-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (Retirement, effective Oct 20, 2026) - [gemini-3.6-flash retires on November 19, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/vertex-ai/2026-10-09-gemini-3-6-flash-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (Retirement, effective Nov 19, 2026) - [gemini-3.7-flash retires on January 28, 2027](https://harbyn.com/changes/vertex-ai/2026-10-09-gemini-3-7-flash-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (Retirement, effective Jan 28, 2027) ### Changes at other vendors - [OpenRouter: arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking expire 2026-10-26](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-23-arcee-ai-trinity-large-thinking-expires-2026-10-26.md) (effective Oct 26, 2026) - [Google Cloud Run and Functions: Node.js 20 runtime decommission](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-node-js-20-runtime-decommission.md) (effective Oct 30, 2026) - [Mistral AI: Z.ai GLM 5.2 (zai-glm-5-2) retires on Mistral on October 31, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/mistral/2026-09-29-z-ai-glm-5-2-deprecated-and-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026) - [Fireworks AI: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 retires from Serverless Training November 2](https://harbyn.com/changes/fireworks/2026-10-18-upcoming-serverless-training-deprecation-deepseek-v4-flash-0731.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026) [All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)