OpenAI model shutdowns

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ShutdownInModelReplacementType
Oct 23, 20267 daysft-babbage-002gpt-5.6-terratext
Oct 23, 20267 daysft-davinci-002gpt-5.6-terratext
Oct 23, 20267 daysft-gpt-3.5-turbogpt-5.6-terratext
Oct 23, 20267 daysft-gpt-4gpt-5.6-soltext
Oct 23, 20267 daysft-gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14gpt-5.6-lunatext
Oct 23, 20267 daysft-o4-mini-2025-04-16gpt-5.6-terratext
Oct 23, 20267 daysgpt-3.5-turbo-0125gpt-5.6-terratext
Oct 23, 20267 daysgpt-4-0613gpt-5.6-soltext
Oct 23, 20267 daysgpt-4-turbogpt-5.6-soltext
Oct 23, 20267 daysgpt-4.1-nanogpt-5.6-lunatext
Oct 23, 20267 daysgpt-4o-2024-05-13gpt-5.6-soltext
Oct 23, 20267 daysgpt-image-1gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flareimage
Oct 23, 20267 dayso1-2024-12-17gpt-5.6-soltext
Oct 23, 20267 dayso1-pro-2025-03-19gpt-5.6-sol ( reasoning.mode: pro )text
Oct 23, 20267 dayso3-mini-2025-01-31gpt-5.6-soltext
Oct 23, 20267 dayso4-mini-2025-04-16gpt-5.6-terratext
Dec 1, 202646 dayschatgpt-image-latestgpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flareimage
Dec 1, 202646 daysgpt-image-1-minigpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flareimage
Dec 1, 202646 daysgpt-image-1.5gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flareimage
Dec 11, 202656 daysgpt-5-2025-08-07gpt-5.6-soltext
Dec 11, 202656 daysgpt-5-mini-2025-08-07gpt-5.6-terratext
Dec 11, 202656 daysgpt-5-nano-2025-08-07gpt-5.6-lunatext
Dec 11, 202656 daysgpt-5-pro-2025-10-06gpt-5.6-sol ( reasoning.mode: pro )text
Dec 11, 202656 dayso3-2025-04-16gpt-5.6-soltext
Dec 11, 202656 dayso3-pro-2025-06-10gpt-5.6-sol ( reasoning.mode: pro )text
Jan 6, 202782 daysgpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20gpt-realtime-2.1-miniaudio
Jan 6, 202782 daysgpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15gpt-realtime-2.1-miniaudio
Jan 6, 202782 daystts-1gpt-realtime-2.1-miniaudio
Jan 6, 202782 daystts-1-hdgpt-realtime-2.1-miniaudio
Jan 14, 202790 daysGPT-4.1 ( gpt-4.1-2025-04-14 )gpt-6-lunatext
Jan 14, 202790 daysGPT-4.1 mini ( gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14 )gpt-6-lunatext
Jan 14, 202790 daysGPT-4o ( gpt-4o-2024-08-06 , gpt-4o-2024-11-20 )gpt-6-lunatext
Jan 14, 202790 daysGPT-4o mini ( gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18 )gpt-6-lunatext
Jan 20, 202796 daysgpt-4o-audiogpt-audio-1.5audio
Jan 20, 202796 daysgpt-4o-mini-audiogpt-audio-1.5audio
Jan 20, 202796 daysgpt-4o-mini-realtimegpt-realtime-2.1-miniaudio
Jan 20, 202796 daysgpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15audio
Jan 20, 202796 daysgpt-4o-realtimegpt-realtime-2.1audio
Jan 20, 202796 daysgpt-audiogpt-audio-1.5audio
Jan 20, 202796 daysgpt-audio-minigpt-audio-1.5audio
Jan 20, 202796 daysgpt-realtimegpt-realtime-2.1audio
Jan 20, 202796 daysgpt-realtime-minigpt-realtime-2.1-miniaudio
Feb 26, 2027133 days/v1/audio/translationsv1/realtime/translationsaudio
Feb 26, 2027133 daysgpt-4o-mini-transcribegpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribeaudio
Feb 26, 2027133 daysgpt-4o-transcribegpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribeaudio
Feb 26, 2027133 daysgpt-4o-transcribe-diarizegpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribeaudio
Feb 26, 2027133 dayswhisper-1gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribeaudio
Apr 1, 2027167 daysgpt-5.1gpt-6-soltext
Apr 1, 2027167 daysgpt-5.3-codexgpt-6-soltext
Apr 1, 2027167 daysgpt-5.4-nanogpt-6-lunatext

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ShutdownInModelReplacementType
Oct 1, 202615 days agogpt-5.4-cyberThe most capable cyber model available to you.text
Sep 28, 202618 days agobabbage-002gpt-5.6-terratext
Sep 28, 202618 days agodavinci-002gpt-5.6-terratext
Sep 28, 202618 days agogpt-3.5-turbo-1106gpt-5.6-terratext
Sep 28, 202618 days agogpt-3.5-turbo-instructgpt-5.6-terratext
Sep 24, 202622 days agoVideos API—video
Sep 24, 202622 days agosora-2—video
Sep 24, 202622 days agosora-2-2025-10-06—video
Sep 24, 202622 days agosora-2-2025-12-08—video
Sep 24, 202622 days agosora-2-pro—video
Sep 24, 202622 days agosora-2-pro-2025-10-06—video
Aug 10, 202667 days agogpt-5.2-chat-latestgpt-5.6-soltext
Aug 10, 202667 days agogpt-5.3-chat-latestgpt-5.6-soltext
Jul 23, 202685 days agocomputer-use-preview-2025-03-11gpt-5.6-terratext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-4o-mini-search-preview-2025-03-11gpt-5.6-terratext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-4o-search-preview-2025-03-11gpt-5.6-terratext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-5-chat-latestgpt-5.6-soltext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-5-codexgpt-5.6-soltext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-5.1-chat-latestgpt-5.6-soltext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-5.1-codexgpt-5.6-soltext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-5.1-codex-maxgpt-5.6-soltext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-5.1-codex-minigpt-5.6-terratext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-5.2-codexgpt-5.6-soltext
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-audio-mini-2025-10-06gpt-audio-1.5audio
Jul 23, 202685 days agogpt-realtime-mini-2025-10-06gpt-realtime-2.1-miniaudio
Jul 23, 202685 days agoo3-deep-research-2025-06-26gpt-5.6-soltext
Jul 23, 202685 days agoo4-mini-deep-research-2025-06-26gpt-5.6-soltext
May 12, 2026157 days agodall-e-2gpt-image-2 , gpt-image-1 , or gpt-image-1-miniimage
May 12, 2026157 days agodall-e-3gpt-image-2 , gpt-image-1 , or gpt-image-1-miniimage
May 7, 2026162 days agogpt-4o-audio-previewgpt-audio-1.5audio
May 7, 2026162 days agogpt-4o-mini-audio-previewgpt-audio-miniaudio
May 7, 2026162 days agogpt-4o-mini-realtime-previewgpt-realtime-miniaudio
May 7, 2026162 days agogpt-4o-realtime-previewgpt-realtime-1.5audio
May 7, 2026162 days agogpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-12-17gpt-realtime-1.5audio
May 7, 2026162 days agogpt-4o-realtime-preview-2025-06-03gpt-realtime-1.5audio
Feb 17, 2026241 days agochatgpt-4o-latestgpt-5.1-chat-latesttext
Feb 12, 2026246 days agocodex-mini-latestgpt-5-codex-minitext
Oct 27, 2025354 days agoo1-minio4-minitext
Oct 27, 2025354 days agotext-moderation-007omni-moderationtext
Oct 27, 2025354 days agotext-moderation-latestomni-moderationtext
Oct 27, 2025354 days agotext-moderation-stableomni-moderationtext
Oct 10, 2025371 days agogpt-4o-audio-preview-2024-10-01gpt-audio-1.5audio
Oct 10, 2025371 days agogpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-10-01gpt-realtime-1.5audio
Jul 28, 2025445 days agoo1-previewo3text
Jul 14, 2025459 days agogpt-4.5-previewgpt-4.1text
Jun 6, 2025497 days agogpt-4-32kgpt-4otext
Jun 6, 2025497 days agogpt-4-32k-0314gpt-4otext
Jun 6, 2025497 days agogpt-4-32k-0613gpt-4otext
Dec 18, 2024667 days agoOpenAI-Beta: assistants=v1OpenAI-Beta: assistants=v2text
Dec 6, 2024679 days agogpt-4-1106-vision-previewgpt-4otext
Dec 6, 2024679 days agogpt-4-vision-previewgpt-4otext
Oct 28, 2024718 days agoNew fine-tuning training on babbage-002gpt-4o-minitext
Oct 28, 2024718 days agoNew fine-tuning training on davinci-002gpt-4o-minitext
Sep 13, 2024763 days agogpt-3.5-turbo-0301gpt-3.5-turbotext
Sep 13, 2024763 days agogpt-3.5-turbo-0613gpt-3.5-turbotext
Sep 13, 2024763 days agogpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613gpt-3.5-turbotext
Jun 13, 2024855 days agogpt-4-0314gpt-4otext
Jan 4, 20241016 days ago/v1/edits/v1/chat/completionstext
Jan 4, 20241016 days ago/v1/fine-tunes/v1/fine_tuning/jobstext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agoadababbage-002text
Jan 4, 20241016 days agobabbagebabbage-002text
Jan 4, 20241016 days agocode-davinci-edit-001gpt-4otext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agocode-search-ada-code-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agocode-search-ada-text-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agocode-search-babbage-code-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agocode-search-babbage-text-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agocuriedavinci-002text
Jan 4, 20241016 days agodavincidavinci-002 , gpt-3.5-turbo , gpt-4otext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-ada-001gpt-3.5-turbo-instructtext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-babbage-001gpt-3.5-turbo-instructtext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-curie-001gpt-3.5-turbo-instructtext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-davinci-001gpt-3.5-turbo-instructtext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-davinci-002gpt-3.5-turbo-instructtext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-davinci-003gpt-3.5-turbo-instructtext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-davinci-edit-001gpt-4otext
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-search-ada-doc-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-search-ada-query-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-search-babbage-doc-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-search-babbage-query-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-search-curie-doc-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-search-curie-query-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-search-davinci-doc-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-search-davinci-query-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-similarity-ada-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-similarity-babbage-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-similarity-curie-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Jan 4, 20241016 days agotext-similarity-davinci-001text-embedding-3-smallembedding
Mar 23, 20231303 days agocode-cushman-001gpt-4otext
Mar 23, 20231303 days agocode-cushman-002gpt-4otext
Mar 23, 20231303 days agocode-davinci-001gpt-4otext
Mar 23, 20231303 days agocode-davinci-002gpt-4otext
Dec 3, 20221413 days ago/v1/answersView transition guidetext
Dec 3, 20221413 days ago/v1/classificationsView transition guidetext
Dec 3, 20221413 days ago/v1/engines/v1/modelstext
Dec 3, 20221413 days ago/v1/searchView transition guidetext
——Assistants APIResponses API and Conversations APItext
——OpenAI-Beta: realtime=v1Realtime APIaudio
——gpt-4-0125-preview (including gpt-4-turbo-preview and gpt-4-turbo-preview-completions , which point to this snapshot)gpt-5 or gpt-4.1*text
——gpt-4-1106-previewgpt-5 or gpt-4.1*text

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