Migrating off gpt-5.1 — retirement date and replacement
Source last checked: 2026-10-05.
OpenAI is retiring gpt-5.1 on 2027-04-01 — in 178 days. The provider’s documented replacement is gpt-6-sol. This page is built from OpenAI’s official deprecation notice and is rechecked weekly; the source link is below.
When is gpt-5.1 being deprecated?
| Model | Provider | Retires | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-5.1 | OpenAI | 2027-04-01 | gpt-6-sol |
Source: OpenAI deprecation notice · announced 2026-10-01
Test before switching
- Check the replacement's supported API endpoints and request parameters.
- Test your prompts, structured output, streaming and tool calls on staging.
- Compare quality, latency, pricing and rate limits on your workload.
- Keep a rollback path while the old model remains available.
Download retirement dates for your models.
What should I migrate gpt-5.1 to?
OpenAI documents gpt-6-sol as the successor. This is not a compatibility guarantee: request parameters, API endpoints, pricing, tool calls and output behaviour may differ. Check the linked provider documentation and run your own workload before switching.
Measured latency of the OpenAI API host
| Region | p50 TTFB | p95 | Uptime | Probes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia (Tokyo) | 211 ms | 296 ms | 100% | 287 |
| Europe (Germany) | 284 ms | 400 ms | 100% | 288 |
| South America (São Paulo) | 249 ms | 433 ms | 100% | 287 |
| US (Central) | 133 ms | 216 ms | 100% | 287 |
Edge latency to the provider’s API host over the last 24 hours, measured from 4 regions. This measures the endpoint, not the model: swapping models on the same host is not an inference benchmark or a promise about the replacement model. Compare edge latency →
What else retires on 2027-04-01?
| Model | Provider | Retires | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-5.3-codex | OpenAI | 2027-04-01 | gpt-6-sol |
| gpt-5.4-nano | OpenAI | 2027-04-01 | gpt-6-luna |
Same shutdown date. If you call more than one of these, they are one migration, not several.
Other OpenAI models being retired
| Model | Provider | Retires | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| tts-1 | OpenAI | 2027-01-06 | gpt-realtime-2.1-mini |
| tts-1-hd | OpenAI | 2027-01-06 | gpt-realtime-2.1-mini |
| gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20 | OpenAI | 2027-01-06 | gpt-realtime-2.1-mini |
| gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15 | OpenAI | 2027-01-06 | gpt-realtime-2.1-mini |
| gpt-5.4-cyber | OpenAI | 2026-10-01 | The most capable cyber model available to you. |
| whisper-1 | OpenAI | 2027-02-26 | gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe |
| gpt-4o-transcribe | OpenAI | 2027-02-26 | gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe |
| gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | OpenAI | 2027-02-26 | gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe |
How is this calendar maintained?
Entries are pulled from provider documentation by an automated weekly job and every one carries a link to its source. Nothing is inferred from blog posts or social media. When a provider changes a date, the change appears here after the next run and is visible in the changelog. The full calendar across all providers is on the deprecations page, and this provider’s own list is at OpenAI deprecations.