Vertex AI
multilingual-e5-small-maas model retirement
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Vertex AI retired model multilingual-e5-small-maas on October 21, 2026. Calls to this model fail since that date. The deprecation was previously announced on July 21, 2026.
The error you get
What Vertex AI answers a call to multilingual-e5-small-maas once the model is gone, as recorded from real responses:
{"error":{"code":404,"message":"Publisher model `projects/{project}/locations/{region}/publishers/google/models/multilingual-e5-small-maas` 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 multilingual-e5-small-maas
Google recommends using Self-deploy E5 Text Embedding on Model Garden as the replacement.
In Vertex AI's words
Model ID: multilingual-e5-small-maas; Deprecation date: July 21, 2026; Retirement date: October 21, 2026; Self-deploy alternative: Self-deploy E5 Text Embedding on Model Garden
Facts
- API
- Vertex AI
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multilingual-e5-small-maas- Kind
- Model retirement
- Announced
- July 21, 2026
- Takes effect
- October 21, 2026
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- Deprecations page
- Last updated
- Verified
- , against Vertex AI's own pages
Questions
When does multilingual-e5-small-maas shut down?
Calls to the model multilingual-e5-small-maas on Vertex AI stopped working on October 21, 2026.
What happens to calls after October 21, 2026?
They have failed since October 21, 2026.
What error does multilingual-e5-small-maas return once it is shut down?
Vertex AI answers HTTP 404: "Publisher model `projects/{project}/locations/{region}/publishers/google/models/multilingual-e5-small-maas` 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.
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