Which OpenAI models are being deprecated?

48 OpenAI models have announced retirement dates. The next is Videos API on 2026-09-24.

How much notice does OpenAI give before retiring a model?

Median 182 days from announcement to shutdown across 136 models, ranging from 3 to 458 days. Computed from OpenAI's own published dates.

What replaces the retired OpenAI models?

Replacements are listed where OpenAI publishes one; the source link on each row is the origin.

Where do these dates come from?

Directly from OpenAI's official deprecation documentation, re-fetched weekly. Nothing is estimated: each row links to the page it was read from, and unverified entries are not published.

OpenAI model deprecations — retirement dates and replacements

Re-checked weekly · last verified September 08, 2026

OpenAI has 48 models scheduled for retirement. The next is Videos API on 2026-09-24. Every date below is taken from OpenAI’s own deprecation page and re-checked weekly.

Which OpenAI models are being retired, and when?

Model	Shutdown	Replacement	Source
`Videos API`	2026-09-24	—	source
`sora-2`	2026-09-24	—	source
`sora-2-pro`	2026-09-24	—	source
`sora-2-2025-10-06`	2026-09-24	—	source
`sora-2-2025-12-08`	2026-09-24	—	source
`sora-2-pro-2025-10-06`	2026-09-24	—	source
`gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct`	2026-09-28	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`babbage-002`	2026-09-28	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`davinci-002`	2026-09-28	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`gpt-3.5-turbo-1106`	2026-09-28	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`gpt-3.5-turbo-0125`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`gpt-4-0613`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-4-turbo`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-4.1-nano`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-luna	source
`gpt-4o-2024-05-13`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-image-1`	2026-10-23	gpt-image-2	source
`o1-2024-12-17`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`o1-pro-2025-03-19`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-sol (reasoning.mode: pro)	source
`o3-mini-2025-01-31`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`ft-o4-mini-2025-04-16`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`o4-mini-2025-04-16`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`ft-gpt-3.5-turbo`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`ft-gpt-4`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`ft-gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-luna	source
`ft-babbage-002`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`ft-davinci-002`	2026-10-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`gpt-image-1-mini`	2026-12-01	gpt-image-2	source
`gpt-image-1.5`	2026-12-01	gpt-image-2	source
`chatgpt-image-latest`	2026-12-01	gpt-image-2	source
`gpt-5-2025-08-07`	2026-12-11	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07`	2026-12-11	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07`	2026-12-11	gpt-5.6-luna	source
`gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06`	2026-12-11	gpt-5.6-sol (reasoning.mode: pro)	source
`o3-2025-04-16`	2026-12-11	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`o3-pro-2025-06-10`	2026-12-11	gpt-5.6-sol (reasoning.mode: pro)	source
`gpt-realtime`	2027-01-20	gpt-realtime-2.1	source
`gpt-audio`	2027-01-20	gpt-audio-1.5	source
`gpt-4o-audio`	2027-01-20	gpt-audio-1.5	source
`gpt-4o-realtime`	2027-01-20	gpt-realtime-2.1	source
`gpt-realtime-mini`	2027-01-20	gpt-realtime-2.1-mini	source
`gpt-audio-mini`	2027-01-20	gpt-audio-1.5	source
`gpt-4o-mini-realtime`	2027-01-20	gpt-realtime-2.1-mini	source
`gpt-4o-mini-audio`	2027-01-20	gpt-audio-1.5	source
`gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20`	2027-01-20	gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15	source
`whisper-1`	2027-02-26	gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe	source
`gpt-4o-transcribe`	2027-02-26	gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe	source
`gpt-4o-mini-transcribe`	2027-02-26	gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe	source
`gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize`	2027-02-26	gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe	source

Videos API — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-24, and no replacement has been named. It was announced on 2026-03-24. Source.

sora-2 — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-24, and no replacement has been named. It was announced on 2026-03-24. Source.

sora-2-pro — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-24, and no replacement has been named. It was announced on 2026-03-24. Source.

sora-2-2025-10-06 — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-24, and no replacement has been named. It was announced on 2026-03-24. Source.

sora-2-2025-12-08 — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-24, and no replacement has been named. It was announced on 2026-03-24. Source.

sora-2-pro-2025-10-06 — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-24, and no replacement has been named. It was announced on 2026-03-24. Source.

gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-28. The published replacement is gpt-5.6-terra. It was announced on 2025-09-26. Source.

babbage-002 — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-28. The published replacement is gpt-5.6-terra. It was announced on 2025-09-26. Source.

davinci-002 — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-28. The published replacement is gpt-5.6-terra. It was announced on 2025-09-26. Source.

gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-09-28. The published replacement is gpt-5.6-terra. It was announced on 2025-09-26. Source.

gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-10-23. The published replacement is gpt-5.6-terra. It was announced on 2026-04-22. Source.

gpt-4-0613 — OpenAI retires this model on 2026-10-23. The published replacement is gpt-5.6-sol. It was announced on 2026-04-22. Source.

How much notice does OpenAI give before shutting a model down?

Across 136 OpenAI models where both the announcement and the shutdown date are published, the median gap is 182 days. The range runs from 3 to 458 days, and the tightest case on record is code-davinci-001 at 3 days (2023-03-20 → 2023-03-23). That number is not published by OpenAI or anyone else — it is computed here from their own dates, and it is what tells you how much runway a pinned model version really has. Same figure for every provider →

How fast is the OpenAI API once you migrate?

Knowing the shutdown date only solves half the problem. These are our own measurements of the live OpenAI API, so you can see what the endpoint you are migrating to actually costs you in latency, by region:

Region	p50 TTFB	Uptime
Asia (Tokyo)	203 ms	100%
Europe (Germany)	215 ms	100%
South America (São Paulo)	243 ms	100%
US (Central)	124 ms	100%

Edge latency over the last 24 hours. Full OpenAI latency detail →

Which OpenAI models have already been retired?

Model	Retired	Replacement	Source
`Assistants API`	2026-08-26	Responses API and Conversations API	source
`gpt-5.2-chat-latest`	2026-08-10	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-5.3-chat-latest`	2026-08-10	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`computer-use-preview-2025-03-11`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`gpt-4o-mini-search-preview-2025-03-11`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`gpt-4o-search-preview-2025-03-11`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`gpt-5-chat-latest`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-5-codex`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-5.1-chat-latest`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-5.1-codex`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-5.1-codex-max`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source
`gpt-5.1-codex-mini`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-terra	source
`gpt-audio-mini-2025-10-06`	2026-07-23	gpt-audio-1.5	source
`gpt-realtime-mini-2025-10-06`	2026-07-23	gpt-realtime-2.1-mini	source
`o3-deep-research-2025-06-26`	2026-07-23	gpt-5.6-sol	source

How is this calendar maintained?

A scheduled job re-reads OpenAI’s official deprecation page every week and rewrites this table from it. Entries that cannot be traced to a published source are not shown at all, which is why every row carries a source link. Dates change: providers extend deadlines and occasionally bring them forward, so this page reflects what the vendor documented at the last check, not a prediction.

All providers: full deprecation calendar · Latency data under CC BY 4.0: JSON API