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Veo 2

Retired

Billed per second of video at $0.35/s (paid tier only), so token price fields are N/A. Google's pricing-page banner: "Veo 2 (veo-2.0-generate-001) is deprecated and will be shut down on June 30, 2026; migrate to Veo 3.1 Preview or the GA models available through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to avoid service disruption." CONFIRMED RETIRED 2026-09-05 on the only signal this catalog accepts for a Google shutdown: the veo-2.0-generate-001 row on the deprecations page now carries a literal class="row-gray" on its <tr>, and that page's own legend reads "Already-shutdown models are indicated with gray backgrounds". check-lifecycle-drift.mjs reads that marker and reported Google stating "shut-down" against our "deprecated". The row was still ungreyed on 2026-09-04, so the marker appeared between the two reads. Until 2026-09-05 this row was held at deprecated, deliberately: a retirement filed on 2026-08-31 was reverted the same day because it rested on the rate row disappearing from the PRICING page, which is an inference rather than a first-party assertion, and the deprecations row was ungreyed then - Google was still saying the endpoint ran. The published shutdown date of June 30, 2026 had passed 67 days before the grey row appeared, which is why a passed date is never sufficient either: Google publishes shutdown dates as "the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired". REPLACEMENT RE-POINTED 2026-10-20: the deprecations table's Recommended replacement cell now reads 'gemini-omni-1.1-flash or the GA models on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform' and the field carries the first-named, gemini-omni-1.1-flash; until the 2026-10-19 read it named veo-3.1-generate-preview, which Google shut down on October 22, 2026 (row grey on the 2026-10-23 read) and which itself points at gemini-omni-1.1-flash. Google does not date the edit (page: Last updated 2026-10-20 UTC). The row stays gray; nothing else in it moved. The pricing-page banner quoted above is no longer on the pricing page as of the 2026-10-20 read.

Veo 2 by Google is tracked live in our LLM catalog. It has been retired (shut down 30 Jun 2026); the recommended migration is Gemini Omni Flash.

Last verified: 24 Oct 2026 · sourced from official provider documentation

Retired on 30 Jun 2026

Lifecycle warning

This model has been retired. Recommended migration: Gemini Omni Flash.

Read the Veo 2 migration guide → replacement & cheapest alternatives

Provider
Google
Status
Retired
Input price
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Output price
—
Cached input
—
Blended price
—
Context window
—
Max output
—
Modality
text-in, video-out
Open weights
No — API only
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
9 Apr 2025
API string
veo-2.0-generate-001

Source: Google official documentation ↗

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FAQ

Veo 2 — questions & answers

Is Veo 2 still available?

Veo 2 has been retired and is no longer available. Its scheduled shutdown date is 30 Jun 2026. The recommended migration is Gemini Omni Flash.

Does Veo 2 support image or vision input?

Our catalog lists Veo 2's modalities as text-in, video-out; image/vision input is not among them.

Can I self-host Veo 2?

No — Veo 2 is proprietary. Its weights are not publicly released, so it is available only through Google's API (or hosted partners), not for self-hosting.

What is the API model string for Veo 2?

The API model identifier for Veo 2 is "veo-2.0-generate-001" when calling Google's API.