Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview on Vertex AI — EU region availability?

Gemini API
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Summary

The gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview model is currently available only
on AI Studio (generativelanguage.googleapis.com — global routing).
There is no Vertex AI version, regardless of region.

For production use we need it on Vertex AI in an EU region
(europe-west4 / europe-west1 / europe-north1) — GDPR requires that
inference for EU end-users stays within the EU. Vertex AI is the only
Gemini surface that offers regional endpoints with a data residency
guarantee; AI Studio’s global routing does not satisfy this.

Question

Is gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview (or any 3.1 Live variant — text-
or native-audio-based) on the Vertex AI roadmap? If yes, what is the
expected timeline and which EU regions will be supported?

The forum thread “Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview on Vertex AI, when?”
1 has been open with no official response. Adding context here in
case it helps escalate visibility.

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Also waiting for 3.1 Flash Live on Vertex AI EU. We tried

gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio` as a fallback but ran into the

control-token leakage bug (model emits `` sequences instead

of audio).

Looks like we’ll have to fall back to Azure + gpt-realtime. Word

recognition is noticeably worse than Gemini, but it’s stable, doesn’t fall into degenerate states mid-call, and ships with proper EU region routing for GDPR.

Really hoping Google ships 3.1 Live on Vertex AI EU soon - we’d

much rather stay on Gemini for the audio quality.

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Hey,
I am also using Live for my application but I came to a different conclusion about GDPR.
If I may ask why would not having an EU hosted model be GDPR breaking?
Isn’t it possible to satisfy GDPR with US hosted models?

My research pointed out that this is only a requiremenent when sensitive data is involved and then it is up to debate if you are actually handling e.g. medical data or just relaying information.

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Guys, I’m quite impressed, that we need to wait so much for the next gen Live model on Vertex. We stucked on 2.5 Flash Native Audio, which falls badly behind Elevenlabs.
I think the market is ready for the next quality jump.

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Hi, there is no 3.1 live on Vertex at all, not just for EU.
There is no official channel to ask google team on their plans deploying models to Vertex.

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It’s been 4 months already and this model is still stuck in preview. Has Google completely abandoned this project?

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We are evaluating gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview for a European customer voice-agent use case.

At present, it appears to be available only through AI Studio using the global generativelanguage.googleapis.com endpoint. We cannot find a Vertex AI deployment for this model in any EU region.

For production, we require regional Vertex AI availability with EU data-residency support. Could Google please confirm whether gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview, or another Gemini 3.1 Live variant, is planned for Vertex AI? If so, which EU regions and indicative timeline are expected?