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imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview model retirement
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Calls to the model imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview on Vertex AI (us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com) stopped working on March 19, 2026.
The error you get
What Vertex AI (us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com) answers a call to imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview once the model is gone, as recorded from real responses:
{"error":{"code":404,"message":"Publisher model `projects/{project}/locations/{region}/publishers/google/models/imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview` was not found or your project does not have access to it. Ensure you are using a valid model name and that the model is available in the specified region.","status":"NOT_FOUND"}}What to use instead of imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview
Update your model endpoints to gemini-2.5-flash-image before March 19, 2026, to avoid service disruption.
In Vertex AI (us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com)'s words
| `imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview` | `gemini-2.5-flash-image` |
Facts
- API
- Vertex AI (us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com)
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imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview- Kind
- Model retirement
- Announced
- February 17, 2026
- Takes effect
- March 19, 2026
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- Changelog
- Last updated
- Verified
- , against Vertex AI (us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com)'s own pages
Questions
When does imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview shut down?
Calls to the model imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview on Vertex AI (us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com) stopped working on March 19, 2026.
What happens to calls after March 19, 2026?
They have failed since March 19, 2026.
What error does imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview return once it is shut down?
Vertex AI (us-central1-aiplatform.googleapis.com) answers HTTP 404: "Publisher model `projects/{project}/locations/{region}/publishers/google/models/imagen-4.0-ingredients-preview` was not found or your project does not have access to it. Ensure you are using a valid model name and that the model is available in the specified region.". Send another model to fix it.
How do I find the calls this hits in my code?
Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.
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