diff --git a/vertexai/evaluation/metrics/pointwise_metric.py b/vertexai/evaluation/metrics/pointwise_metric.py
index 15109e39d8..225bf5877e 100644
--- a/vertexai/evaluation/metrics/pointwise_metric.py
+++ b/vertexai/evaluation/metrics/pointwise_metric.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class PointwiseMetric(_base._ModelBasedMetric):  # pylint: disable=protected-acc
     Usage Examples:
 
         ```
-        candidate_model = GenerativeModel("gemini-1.5-pro")
+        candidate_model = "gemini-2.5-pro"
         eval_dataset = pd.DataFrame({
             "prompt"  : [...],
         })
diff --git a/vertexai/preview/evaluation/metrics/pointwise_metric.py b/vertexai/preview/evaluation/metrics/pointwise_metric.py
index 68765b6dc1..e2ee5c5949 100644
--- a/vertexai/preview/evaluation/metrics/pointwise_metric.py
+++ b/vertexai/preview/evaluation/metrics/pointwise_metric.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class PointwiseMetric(_base._ModelBasedMetric):  # pylint: disable=protected-acc
     Usage Examples:
 
         ```
-        candidate_model = GenerativeModel("gemini-1.5-pro")
+        candidate_model = "gemini-2.5-pro"
         eval_dataset = pd.DataFrame({
             "prompt"  : [...],
         })