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Is text-embedding-004 deprecated?

Google · lifecycle status verified Jul 25, 2026 against the provider's own notice.

Yes — text-embedding-004 is retired as of Jan 14, 2026. Google no longer serves it on the endpoint we price. The prices below are kept for historical reference only.

Last verified pricing

historical reference — not a buy recommendation

text-embedding-004 was last priced at $0.025 per 1M input tokens, with a 2K-token context window. Full history stays on the text-embedding-004 model page.

Picking a replacement

We don't hold a benchmark average for text-embedding-004, so we won't claim any model is "equivalent" to it. Compare live prices across every current model in the migration calculator.

Migrating off text-embedding-004? The migration calculator compares your exact input/output token mix against every current model we track, with benchmark tradeoffs. Lifecycle data on this page comes from Google's own notice and was last re-verified on Jul 25, 2026. See all retired & deprecated models.