AI models retired or deprecated in May 2026
· covers May 2026
37 models have a retirement date inside the next four months as of May 2026. Each row is sourced from the provider’s own deprecation notice.
Which AI models are being retired?
| Provider | Model | Shutdown | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral | Mistral Small 3.2 | 2026-07-31 | Mistral Small 4 |
| Mistral | Devstral 2 | 2026-07-31 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Mistral | Magistral Medium 1.2 | 2026-07-31 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Mistral | Magistral Small 1.2 | 2026-07-31 | Mistral Small 4 |
| Mistral | Mistral Nemo 12B | 2026-07-31 | Ministral 3 8B |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4-1-20250805 | 2026-08-05 | claude-opus-4-8 |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.2-chat-latest | 2026-08-10 | gpt-5.6-sol |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.3-chat-latest | 2026-08-10 | gpt-5.6-sol |
| OpenAI | Assistants API | 2026-08-26 | Responses API and Conversations API |
| Mistral | Mistral Medium 3.1 | 2026-08-31 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Mistral | Mistral Medium 3 | 2026-08-31 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| OpenAI | Videos API | 2026-09-24 | — |
| OpenAI | sora-2 | 2026-09-24 | — |
| OpenAI | sora-2-pro | 2026-09-24 | — |
| OpenAI | sora-2-2025-10-06 | 2026-09-24 | — |
| OpenAI | sora-2-2025-12-08 | 2026-09-24 | — |
| OpenAI | sora-2-pro-2025-10-06 | 2026-09-24 | — |
| OpenAI | gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct | 2026-09-28 | gpt-5.4-mini or gpt-5-mini |
| OpenAI | babbage-002 | 2026-09-28 | gpt-5.4-mini or gpt-5-mini |
| OpenAI | davinci-002 | 2026-09-28 | gpt-5.4-mini or gpt-5-mini |
| OpenAI | gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 | 2026-09-28 | gpt-5.4-mini or gpt-5-mini |
| OpenAI | gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 | 2026-10-23 | gpt-5.6-terra |
| OpenAI | gpt-4-0613 | 2026-10-23 | gpt-5.6-sol |
| OpenAI | gpt-4-turbo | 2026-10-23 | gpt-5.6-sol |
| OpenAI | gpt-4.1-nano | 2026-10-23 | gpt-5.6-luna |
Per-provider migration detail: the deprecation calendar, which also shows our measured latency for the provider you would be migrating to.
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