Gemini embedding-2-preview shuts down on August 10, 2026

What breaks

Any indexing or query pipeline still calling embedding-2-preview will lose its embedding endpoint at shutdown.

• Requests to embedding-2-preview will stop working after its shutdown date.

Affected identifiers and fields

Search your code, environment variables, gateway configuration, and stored request templates for these exact values.

• embedding-2-preview

• embedding model
• embed_content
• vector embeddings

Migration target

Move embedding requests to the generally available gemini-embedding-2 model.

• gemini-embedding-2

What to do

Change the model ID to gemini-embedding-2 and validate vector dimensions, storage, and retrieval quality in a staging index before cutover.

Before and after

result = client.models.embed_content(
    model="embedding-2-preview",
    contents="Text to embed",
)

result = client.models.embed_content(
    model="gemini-embedding-2",
    contents="Text to embed",
)

Official source receipts

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