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Veo 3

Retired

Billed per second of video with audio at $0.40/s (paid tier only), so token price fields are N/A. Google's pricing-page banner: "Veo 3 models (veo-3.0-generate-001, veo-3.0-fast-generate-001) are 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." Until 2026-10-02 the stated date had passed while Google still wrote "will be shut down" and had not marked the row as shut down, so the status stayed deprecated. Google publishes shutdown dates as "the earliest possible dates on which a model might be retired"; already-shut-down models are marked with a grey row on the deprecations page. CONFIRMED RETIRED 2026-10-02 on the only signal this catalog accepts for a Google shutdown: the veo-3.0-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 the 2026-09-29 read, so the marker appeared between 2026-09-29 and 2026-10-02 (the page says "Last updated 2026-10-01 UTC"). Until 2026-10-02 the 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, an inference, while the deprecations row was still ungreyed. The published shutdown date of June 30, 2026 had passed 94 days before the grey row appeared, which is why a passed date is never sufficient on its own. 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 3 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 3 migration guide → replacement & cheapest alternatives

Provider
Google
Status
Retired
Input price
—
Output price
—
Cached input
—
Blended price
—
Context window
—
Max output
—
Modality
text-in, video-out
Open weights
No — API only
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
9 Sep 2025
API string
veo-3.0-generate-001

Source: Google official documentation ↗

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FAQ

Veo 3 — questions & answers

Is Veo 3 still available?

Veo 3 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 3 support image or vision input?

Our catalog lists Veo 3's modalities as text-in, video-out; image/vision input is not among them.

Can I self-host Veo 3?

No — Veo 3 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 3?

The API model identifier for Veo 3 is "veo-3.0-generate-001" when calling Google's API.