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When do your AI models stop working?
Vendors retire model versions on fixed dates, and calls to them start failing. Here is every retirement OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, and Cohere have announced, and a check that finds the ones your repository still calls.
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Every model ID in its code and config is matched against the list below, including Bedrock, Vertex AI, LiteLLM and OpenRouter spellings. You get the retirement date, the vendor's replacement and every file and line that uses it.
Upcoming retirements
Next: veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview (Google Gemini) on Oct 22, 2026. Checked against the vendors' deprecation pages on Oct 11, 2026. Google gives the earliest possible date and announces the exact day later.
October 2026
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2026 earliest, in 7 days |
| Google Gemini | gemini-omni-1.1-flash | Vendor page |
| Oct 23, 2026 in 8 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-terra | Vendor page |
| Oct 23, 2026 in 8 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-sol | Vendor page |
| Oct 23, 2026 in 8 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-sol (reasoning.mode: pro) | Vendor page |
| Oct 23, 2026 in 8 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-luna | Vendor page |
| Oct 23, 2026 in 8 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare | Vendor page |
| Oct 23, 2026 earliest, in 8 days |
| Google Gemini | deep-research-preview-04-2026 | Vendor page |
| Oct 31, 2026 in 16 days |
| Mistral | Z.ai GLM 5.3 | Vendor page |
November 2026
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2026 earliest, in 33 days |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.8-flash-tts or gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts | Vendor page |
| Nov 17, 2026 earliest, in 33 days |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.8-live | Vendor page |
| Nov 30, 2026 in 46 days |
| Anthropic | claude-sonnet-5-5 | Vendor page |
December 2026
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 2026 in 47 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare | Vendor page |
| Dec 11, 2026 in 57 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-sol | Vendor page |
| Dec 11, 2026 in 57 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-terra | Vendor page |
| Dec 11, 2026 in 57 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-luna | Vendor page |
| Dec 11, 2026 in 57 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-sol (reasoning.mode: pro) | Vendor page |
January 2027
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2027 in 83 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-realtime-2.1-mini | Vendor page |
| Jan 20, 2027 in 97 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-realtime-2.1 | Vendor page |
| Jan 20, 2027 in 97 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-realtime-2.1-mini | Vendor page |
| Jan 20, 2027 in 97 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-audio-1.5 | Vendor page |
| Jan 20, 2027 in 97 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 | Vendor page |
February 2027
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2027 in 134 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe | Vendor page |
March 2027
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2027 earliest, in 151 days |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image | Vendor page |
April 2027
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2027 in 168 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-6-sol | Vendor page |
| Apr 1, 2027 in 168 days |
| OpenAI | gpt-6-luna | Vendor page |
May 2027
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2027 earliest, in 204 days |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.5-flash-lite | Vendor page |
May 2028
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2028 earliest, in 577 days |
| Google Gemini | gemini-embedding-2 | Vendor page |
Whole APIs being shut down
- OpenAI Realtime API Beta (OpenAI-Beta: realtime=v1)Shut down May 12, 2026. Use Realtime API (GA) instead. Source
- OpenAI Assistants APIShut down Aug 26, 2026. Use Responses API and Conversations API instead. Source
- OpenAI Videos APIShut down Sep 24, 2026. Source
- OpenAI Evals platform (dashboard and API)Shuts down Nov 30, 2026. Use Promptfoo (OpenAI's documented migration path); existing evals become read-only 2026-10-31 instead. Source
- OpenAI Reusable prompts (v1/prompts API and prompt objects)Shuts down Nov 30, 2026. Use Move reusable prompt content into application code instead. Source
- OpenAI Agent BuilderShuts down Nov 30, 2026. Use Agents SDK or ChatGPT Workspace Agents (ChatKit remains available) instead. Source
Already retired
Code that still calls these models gets an error today.
Show 98 retirements from the last two years
| Shutdown | Model IDs | Vendor | Replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | antigravity-preview-09-2026 | Vendor page |
| Oct 1, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | The most capable cyber model available to you. | Vendor page |
| Sep 30, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | OCR 4.1 | Vendor page |
| Sep 30, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | not named | Vendor page |
| Sep 28, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-terra | Vendor page |
| Sep 24, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | not named | Vendor page |
| Aug 31, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Vendor page |
| Aug 31, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-robotics-er-2-preview | Vendor page |
| Aug 17, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | Vendor page |
| Aug 10, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-embedding-2 | Vendor page |
| Aug 10, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-sol | Vendor page |
| Aug 5, 2026 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4-8 | Vendor page |
| Jul 31, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Small 4 | Vendor page |
| Jul 31, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Ministral 3 8B | Vendor page |
| Jul 31, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Vendor page |
| Jul 28, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.8-flash | Vendor page |
| Jul 23, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-realtime-2.1-mini | Vendor page |
| Jul 23, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-audio-1.5 | Vendor page |
| Jul 23, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-sol | Vendor page |
| Jul 23, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.6-terra | Vendor page |
| Jun 30, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Moderation 2 | Vendor page |
| Jun 30, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Leanstral 1.5 | Vendor page |
| Jun 30, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview or the GA models on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | Vendor page |
| Jun 30, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | veo-3.1-generate-preview or the GA models on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | Vendor page |
| Jun 25, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3-pro-image | Vendor page |
| Jun 25, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | Vendor page |
| Jun 15, 2026 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4-8 | Vendor page |
| Jun 15, 2026 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-sonnet-5-5 | Vendor page |
| Jun 1, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.1-flash-lite | Vendor page |
| Jun 1, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.6-flash | Vendor page |
| May 31, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | OCR 4.1 | Vendor page |
| May 31, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Small 4 | Vendor page |
| May 31, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Vendor page |
| May 31, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2 | Vendor page |
| May 25, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.1-flash-lite | Vendor page |
| May 12, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-image-2, gpt-image-1, or gpt-image-1-mini | Vendor page |
| May 7, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-audio-mini | Vendor page |
| May 7, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-audio-1.5 | Vendor page |
| May 7, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-realtime-mini | Vendor page |
| May 7, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-realtime-1.5 | Vendor page |
| Apr 30, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Ministral 3 8B | Vendor page |
| Apr 30, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-robotics-er-1.6-preview | Vendor page |
| Apr 20, 2026 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | Vendor page |
| Apr 4, 2026 retired |
| Cohere | command-r7b-12-2024, command-a-03-2025, or command-a-reasoning-08-2025 | Vendor page |
| Apr 4, 2026 retired |
| Cohere | embed-english-v3.0, embed-multilingual-v3.0, or embed-v4.0 | Vendor page |
| Mar 31, 2026 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Vendor page |
| Mar 31, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.1-flash-lite | Vendor page |
| Mar 26, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-5 or gpt-4.1 | Vendor page |
| Mar 9, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.1-pro-preview | Vendor page |
| Feb 19, 2026 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-sonnet-5-5 | Vendor page |
| Feb 19, 2026 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | Vendor page |
| Feb 17, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 | Vendor page |
| Feb 17, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | imagen-4.0-generate-001 | Vendor page |
| Feb 17, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.6-flash | Vendor page |
| Feb 17, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-5.1-chat-latest | Vendor page |
| Feb 12, 2026 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-5-codex-mini | Vendor page |
| Jan 15, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | Vendor page |
| Jan 14, 2026 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-embedding-2 | Vendor page |
| Jan 5, 2026 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4-8 | Vendor page |
| Dec 31, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Ministral 3 14B | Vendor page |
| Dec 31, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Ministral 3 8B | Vendor page |
| Dec 31, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Ministral 3 3B | Vendor page |
| Dec 31, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | OCR 4.1 | Vendor page |
| Dec 9, 2025 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.8-live | Vendor page |
| Dec 9, 2025 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-2.5-flash-lite | Vendor page |
| Dec 2, 2025 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.1-pro-preview | Vendor page |
| Nov 30, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Small 4 | Vendor page |
| Nov 30, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Vendor page |
| Nov 30, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Codestral | Vendor page |
| Nov 30, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Small 4 | Vendor page |
| Nov 18, 2025 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-3.6-flash | Vendor page |
| Nov 14, 2025 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | Vendor page |
| Nov 12, 2025 retired |
| Google Gemini | veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview | Vendor page |
| Nov 12, 2025 retired |
| Google Gemini | veo-3.1-generate-preview | Vendor page |
| Nov 10, 2025 retired |
| Google Gemini | imagen-4.0-generate-001 | Vendor page |
| Oct 30, 2025 retired |
| Google Gemini | gemini-embedding-2 | Vendor page |
| Oct 28, 2025 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-sonnet-5-5 | Vendor page |
| Oct 27, 2025 retired |
| OpenAI | o4-mini | Vendor page |
| Oct 27, 2025 retired |
| OpenAI | omni-moderation | Vendor page |
| Oct 10, 2025 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-audio-1.5 | Vendor page |
| Oct 10, 2025 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-realtime-1.5 | Vendor page |
| Sep 30, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Small 4 | Vendor page |
| Jul 28, 2025 retired |
| OpenAI | o3 | Vendor page |
| Jul 21, 2025 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-sonnet-5-5 | Vendor page |
| Jul 21, 2025 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-opus-4-8 | Vendor page |
| Jul 14, 2025 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-4.1 | Vendor page |
| Jun 16, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Vendor page |
| Jun 16, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Large 3 | Vendor page |
| Jun 16, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Small 4 | Vendor page |
| Jun 16, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Codestral | Vendor page |
| Jun 6, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Codestral | Vendor page |
| Jun 6, 2025 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o | Vendor page |
| Apr 30, 2025 retired |
| Cohere | rerank-v3.5 | Vendor page |
| Mar 30, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Small 4 | Vendor page |
| Mar 30, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Ministral 3 8B | Vendor page |
| Mar 30, 2025 retired |
| Mistral | Mistral Large 3 | Vendor page |
| Dec 6, 2024 retired |
| OpenAI | gpt-4o | Vendor page |
| Nov 6, 2024 retired |
| Anthropic | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | Vendor page |
Use this list anywhere
- In your calendarOne all-day event per retirement, with a reminder two weeks before. It updates itself when vendors announce new dates.
- In CIThe GitHub Action fails or comments on a pull request that adds a retiring model.
- In your coding agentThe Versyka MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code look up any model before writing code with it.
- As JSONEverything on this page is at /api/model-retirements, free to use.