# AI models retired or deprecated in August 2026

Published 2026-09-01 · 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? Provider Model Shutdown Replacement 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-5.6-terra OpenAI babbage-002 2026-09-28 gpt-5.6-terra OpenAI davinci-002 2026-09-28 gpt-5.6-terra OpenAI gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 2026-09-28 gpt-5.6-terra 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 OpenAI gpt-4o-2024-05-13 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-sol OpenAI gpt-image-1 2026-10-23 gpt-image-2 OpenAI o1-2024-12-17 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-sol OpenAI o1-pro-2025-03-19 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-sol (reasoning.mode: pro) OpenAI o3-mini-2025-01-31 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-sol OpenAI ft-o4-mini-2025-04-16 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-terra OpenAI o4-mini-2025-04-16 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-terra OpenAI ft-gpt-3.5-turbo 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-terra OpenAI ft-gpt-4 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-sol OpenAI ft-gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-luna OpenAI ft-babbage-002 2026-10-23 gpt-5.6-terra 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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