# embedding-2-preview

Calls to the model embedding-2-preview on Gemini API stopped working on August 10, 2026.

- API: Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
- Model: embedding-2-preview
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: August 10, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model embedding-2-preview`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations)
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/gemini-api/embedding-2-preview/

## 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.