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Coming up
Sep 28, 2026
OpenAI
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OpenAI will shut down gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, gpt-3.5-turbo-1106, babbage-002 and davinci-002 on September 28, 2026; the replacement is gpt-5.6-terra.
Oct 1, 2026
OpenAI
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OpenAI will remove gpt-5.4-cyber from the API on October 1, 2026; migrate to gpt-5.6-cyber.
Oct 23, 2026
OpenAI
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Old GPT-3.5/4/o-series snapshots shut down October 23, 2026, including the bare aliases gpt-4, gpt-3.5-turbo, o1, o3-mini, o4-mini
Nov 30, 2026
OpenAI
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OpenAI reusable prompt objects and the v1/prompts API shut down November 30, 2026
Dec 1, 2026
OpenAI
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OpenAI will remove gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest from the API on December 1, 2026; the replacement is gpt-image-2.
Dec 11, 2026
OpenAI
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OpenAI will remove the older GPT-5 and o3 snapshots (gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini/nano-2025-08-07, gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06, o3-2025-04-16, o3-pro-2025-06-10) on December 11, 2026.
Jan 20, 2027
OpenAI
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OpenAI will remove the legacy audio and realtime model families (gpt-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-4o-realtime and their mini variants) and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20 from the API on January 20, 2027.
Feb 26, 2027
OpenAI
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OpenAI will remove whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize from the API on February 26, 2027; replacements are gpt-transcribe or gpt-live-transcribe.
In effect
Sep 24, 2026
OpenAI
Breaking
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OpenAI Videos API and all Sora 2 models shut down September 24, 2026, with no replacement
Aug 10, 2026
OpenAI
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OpenAI shut down gpt-5.2-chat-latest and gpt-5.3-chat-latest on August 10, 2026. The replacement is gpt-5.6-sol.
Jul 23, 2026
OpenAI
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14 OpenAI models shut down July 23, 2026, including gpt-5-chat-latest and the gpt-5, gpt-5.1 and gpt-5.2 codex models
May 12, 2026
OpenAI
Breaking
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OpenAI shut down dall-e-2 and dall-e-3 on May 12, 2026. Use gpt-image-2.
May 7, 2026
OpenAI
Breaking
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OpenAI shut down the gpt-4o-realtime-preview and gpt-4o-audio-preview models, including their mini versions, on May 7, 2026.
Mar 26, 2026
OpenAI
Breaking
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OpenAI shut down gpt-4-0314, gpt-4-1106-preview and gpt-4-0125-preview, including the gpt-4-turbo-preview alias, on March 26, 2026.
Feb 17, 2026
OpenAI
Breaking
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OpenAI shut down chatgpt-4o-latest on February 17, 2026.
Feb 12, 2026
OpenAI
Breaking
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OpenAI shut down codex-mini-latest on February 12, 2026, and the legacy local shell tool went with it. The replacement is gpt-5-codex-mini.