Turn off Vertex AI Search

You can turn off Vertex AI Search by disabling the Discovery Engine API. Disabling the Discovery Engine API has the following effects:

  • All Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI Search resources might be deleted
  • Charges might continue to appear for up to a day after disabling the API

Because Vertex AI Search and Gemini Enterprise are based on the Discovery Engine API, disabling the Discovery Engine API turns off all these products and any code that calls the Discovery Engine API fails.

To disable the Discovery Engine API, follow these steps:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Discovery Engine API Service Details page.
  2. Click Disable API.
  3. In the Disable Discovery Engine API? box, click Disable.