AI models retired or deprecated in August 2026

· covers August 2026

35 models have a retirement date inside the next four months as of August 2026. Each row is sourced from the provider’s own deprecation notice.

Which AI models are being retired?

ProviderModelShutdownReplacement
OpenAIVideos API2026-09-24---
OpenAIsora-22026-09-24---
OpenAIsora-2-pro2026-09-24---
OpenAIsora-2-2025-10-062026-09-24---
OpenAIsora-2-2025-12-082026-09-24---
OpenAIsora-2-pro-2025-10-062026-09-24---
OpenAIgpt-3.5-turbo-instruct2026-09-28gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAIbabbage-0022026-09-28gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAIdavinci-0022026-09-28gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAIgpt-3.5-turbo-11062026-09-28gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAIgpt-3.5-turbo-01252026-10-23gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAIgpt-4-06132026-10-23gpt-5.6-sol
OpenAIgpt-4-turbo2026-10-23gpt-5.6-sol
OpenAIgpt-4.1-nano2026-10-23gpt-5.6-luna
OpenAIgpt-4o-2024-05-132026-10-23gpt-5.6-sol
OpenAIgpt-image-12026-10-23gpt-image-2
OpenAIo1-2024-12-172026-10-23gpt-5.6-sol
OpenAIo1-pro-2025-03-192026-10-23gpt-5.6-sol (reasoning.mode: pro)
OpenAIo3-mini-2025-01-312026-10-23gpt-5.6-sol
OpenAIft-o4-mini-2025-04-162026-10-23gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAIo4-mini-2025-04-162026-10-23gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAIft-gpt-3.5-turbo2026-10-23gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAIft-gpt-42026-10-23gpt-5.6-sol
OpenAIft-gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-142026-10-23gpt-5.6-luna
OpenAIft-babbage-0022026-10-23gpt-5.6-terra

Per-provider migration detail: the deprecation calendar, which also shows our measured latency for the provider you would be migrating to.

Same series: ← July 2026

Other measurements from the same period

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