What the Gemini API promises before a Veo model stops
Google publishes shutdown dates for five Veo identifiers and describes them as the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired. Advance notice is promised in words. No number of days is attached to that promise, so this register records the period as unfilled rather than as generous. As of 2026-09-22.
| What the page is asked | What Gemini API publishes | What that leaves open |
|---|---|---|
| Are dates published | Yes, five Veo identifiers carry one | Two are preview lines already past their date |
| How much notice before one arrives | Not stated in days | Advance notice is promised without a figure |
| What the published date means | The earliest a model might be retired | So a date can move later without a correction |
| Is a successor named beside the date | No replacement is named for the video lines | The newer generation is not stated as the route |
Inclusion rule. Read from the deprecations page for the interface, restricted to the video identifiers. Dates for text and image models on the same table are not counted in this column. Order. What is published first, then what the publication does not settle.
1A table full of dates and no period
This entry is the odd one in the column: it publishes more dates than anybody else and no notice period at all. The two are not the same commitment, and having the first makes the absence of the second easier to miss rather than harder.
A reader who finds a dated row will feel informed and stop looking. The question that decides a migration plan is how much warning arrives before a row appears, and that question has no answer on this page.
2Earliest possible is the opposite of a deadline
The page describes its dates as the earliest on which a model might be retired. That makes each one a floor rather than a ceiling: work can safely be scheduled up to the date, and nothing says the model stops there.
Read carelessly it looks like reassurance. In planning terms it is a date that cannot be relied on in either direction, which is why the register keeps the wording verbatim instead of summarising it as a shutdown date.
3Where that leaves a production two layers down
Several applications in this register resell these video lines. None of them repeats the dates, and none inherits the promise of advance notice, so the information exists at the layer that publishes it and travels no further.
That is the structural finding rather than a criticism of anyone. A customer of an app is not a customer of this interface, and a promise made to developers is not a promise made to the people whose series depends on the same weights.
- How many days of advance noticeNo date announced (as of 2026-09-12)promised but never counted
- What a date in that table commits toThe shutdown dates listed indicate the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired
- veo-3.0-generate-00130 June 2026veo-3.0-fast-generate-001 and veo-2.0-generate-001, shutdown date
- veo-3.0-generate-preview and veo-3.0-fast-generate-preview12 November 2025shutdown date
4Sources
Read from the deprecations page on ai.google.dev, 2026-09-22. The whole entry is on Gemini API, and the column it sits in is on Notice period. Same column, other entries: LTX Studio, SceneMixer.