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OpenAI model deprecations and shutdown dates

OpenAI deprecates a model first and shuts it down later, usually naming a recommended successor at the same time. Between those two dates the model keeps answering, which is the window to migrate. After shutdown the id returns an error.

We track 161 OpenAI models, 148 of them with a published retirement date. 42 need attention now.

Retiring or deprecated now

Deprecated models still answer but are superseded. Anything inside the 90-day window has a date attached and will stop answering on it.

OpenAI models that are deprecated or retiring soon
ModelStateRetirementReplacement
chatgpt-image-latestdeprecated2026-12-01 · in 29 daysopenai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst
gpt-image-1-minideprecated2026-12-01 · in 29 daysopenai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst
gpt-image-1.5deprecated2026-12-01 · in 29 daysopenai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst
gpt-5deprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5-2025-08-07deprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5-minideprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07deprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-5-nanodeprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-luna
gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07deprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-luna
gpt-5-prodeprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06deprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
o3deprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
o3-2025-04-16deprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
o3-prodeprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
o3-pro-2025-06-10deprecated2026-12-11 · in 39 daysopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-4o-mini-ttsdeprecated2027-01-06 · in 65 daysopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1-mini
gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20deprecated2027-01-06 · in 65 daysopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1-mini
gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15deprecated2027-01-06 · in 65 daysopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1-mini
tts-1deprecated2027-01-06 · in 65 daysopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1-mini
tts-1-hddeprecated2027-01-06 · in 65 daysopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1-mini
GPT-4.1deprecated2027-01-14 · in 73 daysopenai/gpt-6-luna
gpt-4.1-2025-04-14deprecated2027-01-14 · in 73 daysopenai/gpt-6-luna
gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14deprecated2027-01-14 · in 73 daysopenai/gpt-6-luna
gpt-4o-2024-08-06deprecated2027-01-14 · in 73 daysopenai/gpt-6-luna
gpt-4o-2024-11-20deprecated2027-01-14 · in 73 daysopenai/gpt-6-luna
gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18deprecated2027-01-14 · in 73 daysopenai/gpt-6-luna
gpt-4o-audiodeprecated2027-01-20 · in 79 daysopenai/gpt-audio-1.5
gpt-4o-mini-audiodeprecated2027-01-20 · in 79 daysopenai/gpt-audio-1.5
gpt-4o-mini-realtimedeprecated2027-01-20 · in 79 daysopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1-mini
gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20deprecated2027-01-20 · in 79 daysopenai/gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15
gpt-4o-realtimedeprecated2027-01-20 · in 79 daysopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1
gpt-audiodeprecated2027-01-20 · in 79 daysopenai/gpt-audio-1.5
gpt-audio-minideprecated2027-01-20 · in 79 daysopenai/gpt-audio-1.5
gpt-realtimedeprecated2027-01-20 · in 79 daysopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1
gpt-realtime-minideprecated2027-01-20 · in 79 daysopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1-mini
gpt-4o-mini-transcribedeprecated2027-02-26 · in 116 daysopenai/gpt-live-transcribe
gpt-4o-transcribedeprecated2027-02-26 · in 116 daysopenai/gpt-live-transcribe
gpt-4o-transcribe-diarizedeprecated2027-02-26 · in 116 daysopenai/gpt-live-transcribe
whisper-1deprecated2027-02-26 · in 116 daysopenai/gpt-live-transcribe
gpt-5.1deprecated2027-04-01 · in 150 daysopenai/gpt-6-sol
gpt-5.3-codexdeprecated2027-04-01 · in 150 daysopenai/gpt-6-sol
gpt-5.4-nanodeprecated2027-04-01 · in 150 daysopenai/gpt-6-luna

Already retired

These ids no longer answer. If one appears in your code or in something an assistant wrote for you, it is already broken.

OpenAI models that are already retired
ModelStateRetirementReplacement
code-cushman-001retired2023-03-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
code-cushman-002retired2023-03-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
code-davinci-001retired2023-03-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
adaretired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/babbage-002
babbageretired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/babbage-002
code-davinci-002retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
code-davinci-edit-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
code-search-ada-code-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
code-search-ada-text-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
code-search-babbage-code-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
code-search-babbage-text-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
curieretired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/davinci-002
davinciretired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/davinci-002
text-ada-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
text-babbage-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
text-curie-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
text-davinci-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
text-davinci-002retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
text-davinci-003retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
text-davinci-edit-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
text-search-ada-doc-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-search-ada-query-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-search-babbage-doc-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-search-babbage-query-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-search-curie-doc-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-search-curie-query-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-search-davinci-doc-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-search-davinci-query-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-ada-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-babbage-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-curie-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-davinci-001retired2024-01-04 · retiredopenai/text-embedding-3-small
gpt-3.5-turbo-0301retired2024-09-13 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo
gpt-3.5-turbo-0613retired2024-09-13 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo
gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613retired2024-09-13 · retiredopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo
gpt-4-1106-vision-previewretired2024-12-06 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
gpt-4-vision-previewretired2024-12-06 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
gpt-4-32kretired2025-06-06 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
gpt-4-32k-0314retired2025-06-06 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
gpt-4-32k-0613retired2025-06-06 · retiredopenai/gpt-4o
gpt-4.5-previewretired2025-07-14 · retiredopenai/gpt-4.1
o1-previewretired2025-07-28 · retiredopenai/o3
gpt-4o-audio-preview-2024-10-01retired2025-10-10 · retiredopenai/gpt-audio-1.5
gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-10-01retired2025-10-10 · retiredopenai/gpt-realtime-1.5
o1-miniretired2025-10-27 · retiredopenai/o4-mini
text-moderation-007retired2025-10-27 · retiredopenai/omni-moderation
text-moderation-latestretired2025-10-27 · retiredopenai/omni-moderation
text-moderation-stableretired2025-10-27 · retiredopenai/omni-moderation
codex-mini-latestretired2026-02-12 · retiredopenai/gpt-5-codex-mini
chatgpt-4o-latestretired2026-02-17 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.1-chat-latest
gpt-4-0125-previewretired2026-03-26 · retiredopenai/gpt-5
gpt-4-0314retired2026-03-26 · retiredopenai/gpt-5
gpt-4o-audio-previewretired2026-05-07 · retiredopenai/gpt-audio-1.5
gpt-4o-mini-audio-previewretired2026-05-07 · retiredopenai/gpt-audio-mini
gpt-4o-mini-realtime-previewretired2026-05-07 · retiredopenai/gpt-realtime-mini
gpt-4o-realtime-previewretired2026-05-07 · retiredopenai/gpt-realtime-1.5
gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-12-17retired2026-05-07 · retiredopenai/gpt-realtime-1.5
gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2025-06-03retired2026-05-07 · retiredopenai/gpt-realtime-1.5
dall-e-2retired2026-05-12 · retiredopenai/gpt-image-2
dall-e-3retired2026-05-12 · retiredopenai/gpt-image-2
computer-use-preview-2025-03-11retired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-4o-mini-search-preview-2025-03-11retired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-4o-search-preview-2025-03-11retired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-5-chat-latestretired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5-codexretired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5.1-chat-latestretired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5.1-codexretired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5.1-codex-maxretired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5.1-codex-miniretired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-5.2-codexretired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-audio-mini-2025-10-06retired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-audio-1.5
gpt-realtime-mini-2025-10-06retired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-realtime-2.1-mini
o3-deep-research-2025-06-26retired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
o4-mini-deep-research-2025-06-26retired2026-07-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5.2-chat-latestretired2026-08-10 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-5.3-chat-latestretired2026-08-10 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
sora-2retired2026-09-24 · retired—
sora-2-2025-10-06retired2026-09-24 · retired—
sora-2-2025-12-08retired2026-09-24 · retired—
sora-2-proretired2026-09-24 · retired—
sora-2-pro-2025-10-06retired2026-09-24 · retired—
babbage-002retired2026-09-28 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
davinci-002retired2026-09-28 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-3.5-turbo-1106retired2026-09-28 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-3.5-turbo-instructretired2026-09-28 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-5.4-cyberretired2026-10-01 · retired—
ft-babbage-002retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
ft-davinci-002retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
ft-gpt-3.5-turboretired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
ft-gpt-4retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
ft-gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-luna
ft-o4-mini-2025-04-16retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-3.5-turbo-0125retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-4-0613retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-4-1106-previewretired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-4-turboretired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-4.1-nanoretired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-luna
gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14retired2026-10-23 · retired—
gpt-4o-2024-05-13retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-image-1retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst
o1-2024-12-17retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
o1-pro-2025-03-19retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
o3-miniretired2026-10-23 · retired—
o3-mini-2025-01-31retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-sol
o4-miniretired2026-10-23 · retired—
o4-mini-2025-04-16retired2026-10-23 · retiredopenai/gpt-5.6-terra

Currently safe

Active, announced, or legacy with no imminent date. Legacy models are superseded but still served.

OpenAI models with no imminent retirement
ModelStateRetirementReplacement
gpt-4.1-miniactiveNot announced—
gpt-4oactiveNot announced—
gpt-4o-miniactiveNot announced—
gpt-5.1-2025-11-13activeNot announced—
gpt-5.2activeNot announced—
gpt-5.2-2025-12-11activeNot announced—
gpt-5.4activeNot announced—
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05activeNot announced—
gpt-5.4-miniactiveNot announced—
gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17activeNot announced—
gpt-5.4-nano-2026-03-17activeNot announced—
gpt-5.5activeNot announced—
gpt-5.5-2026-04-23activeNot announced—

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