# text-embedding-004

Calls to the model text-embedding-004 on Gemini API stopped working on January 14, 2026.

- API: Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
- Model: text-embedding-004
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: January 14, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model text-embedding-004`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations)
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/gemini-api/text-embedding-004/

## What to use instead

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

Google: the embedding spaces of gemini-embedding-001 and gemini-embedding-2 are incompatible, so you must re-embed all of your existing data. task_type is not supported; put the task in the prompt.