imagetext — Retired — shutdown September 24, 2025
For imagetext, provider is Google (Vertex AI); lifecycle status is Retired; shutdown / retirement date is September 24, 2025; recommended replacement is gemini-2.5-flash-image, recorded from its source on 2026-09-16.
- Provider
- Google (Vertex AI) our reading
- Model ID / API name
- imagetext verified
- Lifecycle status
- Retired
- Release date
- June 7, 2023 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- September 24, 2025 verified
- Recommended replacement
- gemini-2.5-flash-image verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
imagetext | June 7, 2023 | September 24, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-image |
— cloud.google.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Where each value comes from
The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.
Release date
Model ID | Release date | Retirement date | Recommended upgrade | gemini-2.0-flash | February 5, 2025 | June 1, 2026 | gemini-3.1-flash-lite | gemini-2.0-flash-lite | February 25, 2025 | June 1, 2026 | gemini-3.1-flash-lite | gemini-1.5-pro-001 | May 24, 2024 | May 24, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash | gemini-1.5-pro-002 | September 24, 2024 | September 24, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash | gemini-1.5-flash-001 | May 24, 2024 | May 24, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | gemini-1.5-flash-002 | September 24, 2024 | September 24, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | textembedding-gecko@003* | December 12, 2023 | May 24, 2025 | gemini-embedding-001 | textembedding-gecko-multilingual@001 | November 2, 2023 | May 24, 2025 | gemini-embedding-001 | gemini-1.0-pro-001 | February 15, 2024 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash | gemini-1.0-pro-002 | April 9, 2024 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash | gemini-1.0-pro-vision-001 | February 15, 2024 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash | text-bison | May 2023 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | chat-bison | May 2023 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | code-gecko | May 2023 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | textembedding-gecko@002 | November 2, 2023 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-embedding-001 | textembedding-gecko@001 | June 7, 2023 | April 21, 2025 | gemini-embedding-001 | imagetext | June 7, 2023 | September 24, 2025 | gemini-2.5-flash-image |
— all from cloud.google.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Source
- cloud.google.comhttps://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/model-versioning
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