Azure OpenAI model shutdowns
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
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| Shutdown | In | Model | Replacement | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | today | Cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026 (1) | coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-fp8 1 , coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-bf16 1 , coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-w4a4 1 | text |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 7 days | gpt-image-1 (2025-04-15) | — | image |
| Nov 15, 2026 | 30 days | claude-haiku-4-5 (1) | — | text |
| Nov 15, 2026 | 30 days | claude-haiku-4-5 (2) | — | text |
| Nov 15, 2026 | 30 days | codex-mini (2025-05-16) | — | text |
| Nov 17, 2026 | 32 days | gpt-chat-latest (2026-05-05) | — | text |
| Nov 17, 2026 | 32 days | gpt-chat-latest (2026-06-24) | — | text |
| Nov 19, 2026 | 34 days | o1 (2024-12-17) | gpt-5.6-sol | text |
| Nov 19, 2026 | 34 days | o1-pro (2025-03-19) | gpt-5.6-sol | text |
| Nov 19, 2026 | 34 days | o3 (2025-04-16) | gpt-5.6-sol | text |
| Nov 19, 2026 | 34 days | o3-deep-research (2025-06-26) | gpt-5.6-sol | text |
| Nov 19, 2026 | 34 days | o3-mini (2025-01-31) | gpt-5.6-terra | text |
| Nov 19, 2026 | 34 days | o3-pro (2025-06-10) | gpt-5.6-sol | text |
| Nov 19, 2026 | 34 days | o4-mini (2025-04-16) | gpt-5.6-terra | text |
| Nov 24, 2026 | 39 days | claude-opus-4-5 (1) | — | text |
| Nov 30, 2026 | 45 days | claude-sonnet-4-5 (1) | claude-sonnet-5-5 | text |
| Dec 3, 2026 | 48 days | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (2026-07-31) | — | text |
| Dec 8, 2026 | 53 days | gpt-chat-latest (2026-05-28) | — | text |
| Dec 9, 2026 | 54 days | gpt-4o (2024-05-13) | gpt-5.6-sol | text |
| Dec 15, 2026 | 60 days | Cohere-parse-v5 (1) | — | text |
| Dec 15, 2026 | 60 days | gpt-realtime-mini (2025-12-15) | — | audio |
| Dec 15, 2026 | 60 days | tts (001) | — | audio |
| Dec 15, 2026 | 60 days | tts-hd (001) | — | audio |
| Dec 15, 2026 | 60 days | whisper (001) | — | audio |
| Dec 16, 2026 | 61 days | gpt-image-1.5 (2025-12-16) | — | image |
| Jan 12, 2027 | 88 days | gpt-chat-latest (2026-08-06) | — | text |
| Jan 26, 2027 | 102 days | Kimi-K2.5 (1) | — | text |
| Feb 2, 2027 | 109 days | claude-opus-4-6 (1) | — | text |
| Feb 9, 2027 | 116 days | gpt-5 (2025-08-07) | — | text |
| Feb 9, 2027 | 116 days | gpt-5-mini (2025-08-07) | — | text |
| Feb 9, 2027 | 116 days | gpt-5-nano (2025-08-07) | — | text |
| Feb 10, 2027 | 117 days | claude-sonnet-4-6 (1) | — | text |
| Mar 2, 2027 | 137 days | gpt-audio (2025-08-28) | — | audio |
| Mar 2, 2027 | 137 days | gpt-realtime (2025-08-28) | — | audio |
| Mar 17, 2027 | 152 days | gpt-5-codex (2025-09-15) | — | text |
| Apr 2, 2027 | 168 days | claude-mythos-preview (gated research preview) (—) | — | text |
| Apr 6, 2027 | 172 days | claude-opus-4-7 (1) | — | text |
| Apr 6, 2027 | 172 days | gpt-audio-mini (2025-10-06) | — | audio |
| Apr 6, 2027 | 172 days | grok-4-20-non-reasoning (1) | — | text |
| Apr 6, 2027 | 172 days | grok-4-20-reasoning (1) | — | text |
| Apr 7, 2027 | 173 days | gpt-5-pro (2025-10-06) | — | text |
| Apr 7, 2027 | 173 days | gpt-image-1-mini (2025-10-06) | — | image |
| Apr 14, 2027 | 180 days | gpt-4.1 (2025-04-14) | — | text |
| Apr 14, 2027 | 180 days | gpt-4.1-mini (2025-04-14) | — | text |
| Apr 14, 2027 | 180 days | gpt-4.1-nano (2025-04-14) | — | text |
| Apr 14, 2027 | 180 days | gpt-4o (2024-08-06) | gpt-5.1 | text |
| Apr 14, 2027 | 180 days | gpt-4o (2024-11-20) | gpt-5.1 | text |
| Apr 14, 2027 | 180 days | gpt-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | — | text |
| Apr 15, 2027 | 181 days | gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize (2025-10-15) | — | audio |
| Apr 16, 2027 | 182 days | Kimi-K2.6 (2026-04-20) | — | text |
| May 15, 2027 | 211 days | gpt-5.1 (2025-11-13) | — | text |
| May 15, 2027 | 211 days | gpt-5.1-codex (2025-11-13) | — | text |
| May 15, 2027 | 211 days | gpt-5.1-codex-mini (2025-11-13) | — | text |
| May 18, 2027 | 214 days | gpt-5.1-codex-max (2025-12-04) | — | text |
| May 18, 2027 | 214 days | gpt-chat-latest (2026-10-07) | — | text |
| May 20, 2027 | 216 days | model-router (2025-11-18) | — | text |
| Jun 8, 2027 | 235 days | gpt-5.2 (2025-12-11) | — | text |
| Jun 15, 2027 | 242 days | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe (2025-12-15) | — | audio |
| Jun 15, 2027 | 242 days | gpt-4o-mini-tts (2025-12-15) | — | audio |
| Jun 15, 2027 | 242 days | gpt-audio-mini (2025-12-15) | — | audio |
| Jun 25, 2027 | 252 days | gpt-realtime-2.1 (2026-07-07) | — | audio |
| Jun 25, 2027 | 252 days | gpt-realtime-2.1-mini (2026-07-07) | — | audio |
| Jun 30, 2027 | 257 days | claude-sonnet-5 (1) | — | text |
| Jun 30, 2027 | 257 days | claude-sonnet-5 (2) | — | text |
| Jul 8, 2027 | 265 days | claude-opus-5 (1) | — | text |
| Jul 8, 2027 | 265 days | claude-opus-5 (2) | — | text |
| Jul 13, 2027 | 270 days | gpt-5.2-codex (2026-01-14) | — | text |
| Aug 24, 2027 | 312 days | gpt-5.3-codex (2026-02-24) | — | text |
| Aug 24, 2027 | 312 days | gpt-audio-1.5 (2026-02-23) | — | audio |
| Aug 24, 2027 | 312 days | gpt-realtime-1.5 (2026-02-23) | — | audio |
| Sep 1, 2027 | 320 days | claude-opus-4-8 (1) | — | text |
| Sep 1, 2027 | 320 days | claude-opus-4-8 (2) | — | text |
| Sep 2, 2027 | 321 days | gpt-5.4 (2026-03-05) | — | text |
| Sep 7, 2027 | 326 days | gpt-5.4-pro (2026-03-05) | — | text |
| Sep 9, 2027 | 328 days | gpt-image-2.5-flare (2026-09-09) | — | image |
| Sep 9, 2027 | 328 days | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst (2026-09-09) | — | image |
| Sep 21, 2027 | 340 days | gpt-5.4-mini (2026-03-17) | — | text |
| Sep 21, 2027 | 340 days | gpt-5.4-nano (2026-03-17) | — | text |
| Oct 21, 2027 | 370 days | gpt-image-2 (2026-04-21) | — | image |
| Oct 26, 2027 | 375 days | gpt-5.5 (2026-04-24) | — | text |
| Dec 5, 2027 | 415 days | claude-fable-5 (1) | — | text |
| Dec 5, 2027 | 415 days | claude-fable-5-1 (1) | — | text |
| Jan 11, 2028 | 452 days | gpt-5.6-luna (2026-07-09) | — | text |
| Jan 11, 2028 | 452 days | gpt-5.6-sol (2026-07-09) | — | text |
| Jan 11, 2028 | 452 days | gpt-5.6-terra (2026-07-09) | — | text |
| Feb 9, 2028 | 481 days | text-embedding-3-large (1) | — | embedding |
| Feb 9, 2028 | 481 days | text-embedding-3-small (1) | — | embedding |
| Feb 9, 2028 | 481 days | text-embedding-ada-002 (1) | — | embedding |
| Feb 9, 2028 | 481 days | text-embedding-ada-002 (2) | — | embedding |
| Feb 20, 2028 | 492 days | DeepSeek-V4-Flash (2026-04-23) | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | text |
| Feb 20, 2028 | 492 days | DeepSeek-V4-Pro (2026-04-23) | — | text |
Retired or no date
| Shutdown | In | Model | Replacement | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | 1 days ago | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe (2025-03-20) | — | audio |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 1 days ago | gpt-4o-mini-tts (2025-03-20) | — | audio |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 1 days ago | gpt-4o-transcribe (2025-03-20) | — | audio |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 1 days ago | sora-2 (2025-12-08) | — | video |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 13 days ago | Kimi-K2.7-Code (2026-06-12) | — | text |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 15 days ago | MAI-Image-2.5 (2026-06-02) | — | image |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 15 days ago | MAI-Image-2.5-Flash (2026-06-02) | — | image |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 15 days ago | MAI-Image-2.5-Pro (2026-06-19) | — | image |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 25 days ago | gpt-realtime-mini (2025-10-06) | — | audio |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 31 days ago | MAI-Transcribe-1 (2026-01-23) | MAI-Transcribe-1.5 | audio |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 46 days ago | TimeGEN-1 (1) | TimeGPT-1, TimegGPT-2.1 | text |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 46 days ago | tsuzumi-7b (2) | tsuzumi2 | text |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 47 days ago | model-router (2025-05-19) | — | text |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 47 days ago | model-router (2025-08-07) | — | text |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 62 days ago | MAI-Image-2 (2026-02-20) | MAI-Image-2.5 | image |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 62 days ago | MAI-Image-2e (2026-04-09) | MAI-Image-2.5-Flash | image |
| Aug 13, 2026 | 64 days ago | DeepSeek-R1 (1) | DeepSeek-V4-Pro | text |
| Aug 5, 2026 | 72 days ago | claude-opus-4-1 (—) | claude-opus-5 | text |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 77 days ago | Stable-Diffusion-3.5-Large (1) | — | text |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 77 days ago | Stable-Image-Core (1) | — | image |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 77 days ago | Stable-Image-Ultra (1) | — | image |
| Jul 20, 2026 | 88 days ago | mistral-document-ai-2505 (1) | mistral-document-ai-2512, mistral-ocr-4-0 | text |
| Jul 15, 2026 | 93 days ago | sora-2 (2025-10-06) | sora-2 (2025-12-08) | video |
| Jul 13, 2026 | 95 days ago | DeepSeek-R1-0528 (1) | DeepSeek-V4-Pro | text |
| Jul 13, 2026 | 95 days ago | DeepSeek-V3-0324 (1) | DeepSeek-V4-Flash | text |
| Jul 13, 2026 | 95 days ago | DeepSeek-V3.1 (1) | DeepSeek-V4-Flash | text |
| Jun 29, 2026 | 109 days ago | gpt-5-chat (2025-08-07) | gpt-chat-latest | text |
| Jun 29, 2026 | 109 days ago | gpt-5.1-chat (2025-11-13) | gpt-chat-latest | text |
| Jun 29, 2026 | 109 days ago | gpt-5.2-chat (2026-02-10) | gpt-chat-latest | text |
| Jun 29, 2026 | 109 days ago | gpt-5.3-chat (2026-03-03) | gpt-chat-latest | text |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 125 days ago | Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct (—) | — | text |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 125 days ago | Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct (—) | — | text |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 125 days ago | Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct (—) | — | text |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 125 days ago | Meta-Llama-3.1-8B (—) | — | text |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 125 days ago | Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct (—) | — | text |
| May 14, 2026 | 155 days ago | Cohere-rerank-v3.5 (1) | Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro, Cohere-rerank-v4.0-fast | text |
| May 13, 2026 | 156 days ago | gpt-5-chat (2025-10-03) | gpt-chat-latest | text |
| May 13, 2026 | 156 days ago | gpt-5.2-chat (2025-12-11) | gpt-chat-latest | text |
| May 12, 2026 | 157 days ago | Cohere-command-r-08-2024 (1) | — | text |
| May 12, 2026 | 157 days ago | Cohere-command-r-plus-08-2024 (1) | — | text |
| May 1, 2026 | 168 days ago | grok-3 (1) | grok-4 | text |
| May 1, 2026 | 168 days ago | grok-3-mini (1) | grok-4-1-fast-reasoning | text |
| May 1, 2026 | 168 days ago | grok-4-fast-non-reasoning (1) | grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning | text |
| May 1, 2026 | 168 days ago | grok-4-fast-reasoning (1) | grok-4-1-fast-reasoning | text |
| — | — | Codestral-2501 (2) | — | text |
| — | — | Cohere-embed-v3-english (1) | — | embedding |
| — | — | Cohere-embed-v3-multilingual (1) | — | embedding |
| — | — | Cohere-rerank-v4.0-fast (1) | — | text |
| — | — | Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro (1) | — | text |
| — | — | DeepSeek-V3.2 (1) | — | text |
| — | — | DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale (1) | — | text |
| — | — | FLUX-1.1-pro (1) | — | text |
| — | — | FLUX.1-Kontext-pro (1) | — | text |
| — | — | FLUX.2-flex (1) | — | text |
| — | — | FLUX.2-pro (1) | — | text |
| — | — | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct (—) | — | text |
| — | — | Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 (—) | — | text |
| — | — | Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct (—) | — | text |
| — | — | Ministral-3B (1) | — | text |
| — | — | Mistral-Large-3 (1) | — | text |
| — | — | Mistral-large (1) | — | text |
| — | — | Phi-4 (—) | — | text |
| — | — | Phi-4-mini-instruct (—) | — | text |
| — | — | Phi-4-mini-reasoning (—) | — | text |
| — | — | Phi-4-multimodal-instruct (—) | — | text |
| — | — | Phi-4-reasoning (—) | — | text |
| — | — | claude-mythos-5-1 (1) | — | text |
| — | — | cohere-command-a (1) | — | text |
| — | — | embed-v-4-0 (1) | — | embedding |
| — | — | gpt-oss-120b (1) | — | text |
| — | — | gpt-realtime-2 (2026-05-06) | gpt-realtime-2.1 | audio |
| — | — | grok-4 (1) | — | text |
| — | — | grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning (1) | — | text |
| — | — | grok-4-1-fast-reasoning (1) | — | text |
| — | — | grok-code-fast-1 (1) | — | text |
| — | — | mistral-document-ai-2512 (1) | mistral-ocr-4-0 | text |
| — | — | mistral-medium-2505 (1) | — | text |
| — | — | mistral-small-2503 (1) | — | text |
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