text-embedding-005 — Available — shutdown April 1, 2027
For text-embedding-005, provider is Google (Vertex AI); lifecycle status is Available; shutdown / retirement date is April 1, 2027, recorded from its source on 2026-09-16.
- Provider
- Google (Vertex AI) our reading
- Model ID / API name
- text-embedding-005 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Available
- Release date
- November 18, 2024 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- April 1, 2027 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
text-embedding-005 | November 18, 2024 | April 1, 2027 | |
— cloud.google.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Where each value comes from
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Release date
Model ID | Release date | Retirement date | Replacement model | gemini-embedding-2 | April 22, 2026 | | | gemini-embedding-001 | May 20, 2025 | No sooner than May 20, 2028 | | text-embedding-005 | November 18, 2024 | April 1, 2027 | |
— 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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