# embedding-gecko-001

Calls to the model embedding-gecko-001 on Gemini API stopped working on October 30, 2025.

## The error Gemini API returns once embedding-gecko-001 is gone

Once it is closed to new API keys: HTTP 404

```json
{"error":{"code":404,"message":"This model models/embedding-gecko-001 is no longer available to new users. Please update your code to use a newer model for the latest features and improvements.","status":"NOT_FOUND"}}
```

Once it is shut down: HTTP 404

```json
{"error":{"code":404,"message":"models/embedding-gecko-001 is not found for API version v1beta, or is not supported for generateContent. Call ModelService.ListModels to see the list of available models and their supported methods.","status":"NOT_FOUND"}}
```

## 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.

- API: Gemini API (generativelanguage.googleapis.com)
- Model: embedding-gecko-001
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: October 30, 2025
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model embedding-gecko-001`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Gemini API's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/gemini-api/embedding-gecko-001/

## Gemini API's words

> Model: embedding-gecko-001; Shutdown date: October 30, 2025; Recommended replacement: gemini-embedding-2

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent