# embedding-001

Calls to the model embedding-001 on Gemini API stopped working on October 30, 2025.

- API: Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
- Model: embedding-001
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: October 30, 2025
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model embedding-001`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations)
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/gemini-api/embedding-001/

## What to use instead

Move to gemini-embedding-2, recommended by Google.

Embeddings from another model are not comparable with this one's: vectors the code stores must all be computed again with the new model.