GCP key dates
Every dated GCP change that forces action, in one place: end-of-life and end-of-support deadlines, plus announced pricing changes, configuration-default changes, retirements and policy mandates that impact your stack and costs. What's changing, when, and how long you have. For day-to-day announcements, see the GCP release feed.
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Dated changes (2)
Announced changes with an explicit effective date: pricing, defaults, retirements and policy mandates that existing workloads must plan around. Every date shown has been checked against the original announcement, which each row links to.
- 16 Oct 2026 18 days
Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash-Lite, and Flash models will be retired. Migrate workloads to other supported models.
- 26 Nov 2026 59 days
Vertex AI Extensions will be shut down after November 26, 2026. Migrate to Agent Platform to avoid service disruption.
Vertex AI model retirements (37)
Models GCP has published a retirement date for, soonest first. A model ID is a dependency with an expiry date, not a stable configuration value, and the platform retires on its own schedule — a date here can differ from the model vendor's own page. Details & FAQ →
| Model | Released | End of life | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.5-pro | 17 Jun 2025 | 20 Oct 2026 | 21 days left |
| gemini-2.5-flash | 17 Jun 2025 | 20 Oct 2026 | 21 days left |
| gemini-2.5-flash-lite | 22 Jul 2025 | 20 Oct 2026 | 21 days left |
| veo-3.1-generate-001 | 17 Nov 2025 | 17 Nov 2026 | 49 days left |
| veo-3.1-fast-generate-001 | 17 Nov 2025 | 17 Nov 2026 | 49 days left |
| gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio | 12 Dec 2025 | 13 Dec 2026 | 75 days left |
| gemini-2.5-flash-image | 2 Oct 2025 | 15 Mar 2027 | 167 days left |
| text-embedding-005 | 18 Nov 2024 | 1 Apr 2027 | 184 days left |
| text-embedding-004 | 14 May 2024 | 1 Apr 2027 | 184 days left |
| text-multilingual-embedding-002 | 14 May 2024 | 1 Apr 2027 | 184 days left |
| multimodalembedding@001 | 12 Feb 2024 | 1 Apr 2027 | 184 days left |
| gemini-3.1-flash-lite | 7 May 2026 | 7 May 2027 | 220 days left |
| gemini-3.5-flash | 19 May 2026 | 19 May 2027 | 232 days left |
| gemini-3.1-flash-image | 28 May 2026 | 28 May 2027 | 241 days left |
| gemini-3-pro-image | 28 May 2026 | 28 May 2027 | 241 days left |
| gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image | 23 Jun 2026 | 28 Jun 2027 | 272 days left |
| gemini-3.5-flash-lite | 21 Jul 2026 | 21 Jul 2027 | 295 days left |
| gemini-embedding-001 | 20 May 2025 | 20 May 2028 | 599 days left |
Archive: 19 already retired
| Model | Released | End of life | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-1.0-pro-001 | 15 Feb 2024 | 21 Apr 2025 | end of life |
| gemini-1.0-pro-002 | 9 Apr 2024 | 21 Apr 2025 | end of life |
| gemini-1.0-pro-vision-001 | 15 Feb 2024 | 21 Apr 2025 | end of life |
| text-bison | n/a | 21 Apr 2025 | end of life |
| chat-bison | n/a | 21 Apr 2025 | end of life |
| code-gecko | n/a | 21 Apr 2025 | end of life |
| textembedding-gecko@002 | 2 Nov 2023 | 21 Apr 2025 | end of life |
| textembedding-gecko@001 | 7 Jun 2023 | 21 Apr 2025 | end of life |
| gemini-1.5-pro-001 | 24 May 2024 | 24 May 2025 | end of life |
| gemini-1.5-flash-001 | 24 May 2024 | 24 May 2025 | end of life |
| textembedding-gecko@003* | 12 Dec 2023 | 24 May 2025 | end of life |
| textembedding-gecko-multilingual@001 | 2 Nov 2023 | 24 May 2025 | end of life |
| gemini-1.5-pro-002 | 24 Sept 2024 | 24 Sept 2025 | end of life |
| gemini-1.5-flash-002 | 24 Sept 2024 | 24 Sept 2025 | end of life |
| imagetext | 7 Jun 2023 | 24 Sept 2025 | end of life |
| gemini-2.0-flash | 5 Feb 2025 | 1 Jun 2026 | end of life |
| gemini-2.0-flash-lite | 25 Feb 2025 | 1 Jun 2026 | end of life |
| veo-3.0-generate-001 | 29 Jul 2025 | 30 Jun 2026 | end of life |
| veo-3.0-fast-generate-001 | 29 Jul 2025 | 30 Jun 2026 | end of life |