Retirement calendar · 73 dated shutdowns ahead · 6 API / SDK

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Every dated model & endpoint retirement we track, counted down to the day it stops working — with the vendor's recommended replacement. The breaking changes you can plan around, before a call starts erroring on a fixed date.

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API breaking changes 3

Endpoint, parameter & required-body changes, diffed straight from official API specs — the breaking changes no model-retirement table shows.

Retiring within 30 days 21

Hard cutoff imminent — migrate now or calls start erroring.
9d left gemini-embedding-001 Google · retires July 14, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gemini-embedding-2 18d left gpt-5-chat-latest OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 18d left gpt-5.1-chat-latest OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 18d left gpt-5-codex OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 18d left gpt-5.1-codex OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 18d left gpt-5.1-codex-max OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 18d left gpt-5.1-codex-mini OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 18d left gpt-5.2-codex OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 18d left gpt-audio-mini-2025-10-06 OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-audio-1.5 18d left gpt-realtime-mini-2025-10-06 OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-realtime-mini 18d left computer-use-preview-2025-03-11 OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 18d left gpt-4o-mini-search-preview-2025-03-11 OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 18d left gpt-4o-search-preview-2025-03-11 OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 18d left gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20 OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15 18d left o3-deep-research-2025-06-26 OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to o3-deep-research or gpt-5.5-pro 18d left o4-mini-deep-research-2025-06-26 OpenAI · retires July 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to o4-mini-deep-research or gpt-5.5-pro 26d left mistral-small-2506 Mistral AI · retires 7/31/2026 · Deprecated → move to Mistral Small 4 26d left magistral-medium-2509 Mistral AI · retires 7/31/2026 · Deprecated → move to Mistral Medium 3.5 26d left magistral-small-2509 Mistral AI · retires 7/31/2026 · Deprecated → move to Mistral Small 4 26d left devstral-2512 Mistral AI · retires 7/31/2026 · Deprecated → move to Mistral Medium 3.5 26d left open-mistral-nemo-2407 Mistral AI · retires 7/31/2026 · Deprecated → move to Ministral 3 8B

Within 90 days 18

On the near horizon — plan the cutover this quarter.
31d left claude-opus-4-1-20250805 Anthropic · retires August 5, 2026 · Deprecated → move to claude-opus-4-8 36d left gpt-5.2-chat-latest OpenAI · retires Aug 10, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 36d left gpt-5.3-chat-latest OpenAI · retires Aug 10, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 52d left Assistants APIAPI · SDK OpenAI · retires Aug 26, 2026 · Deprecated → move to Responses API and Conversations API 57d left mistral-medium-2508 Mistral AI · retires 8/31/2026 · Deprecated → move to Mistral Medium 3.5 57d left mistral-medium-2505 Mistral AI · retires 8/31/2026 · Deprecated → move to Mistral Medium 3.5 3mo left Videos APIAPI · SDK OpenAI · retires Sept 24, 2026 · Deprecated → move to None listed 3mo left sora-2 OpenAI · retires Sept 24, 2026 · Deprecated → move to None listed 3mo left sora-2-pro OpenAI · retires Sept 24, 2026 · Deprecated → move to None listed 3mo left sora-2-2025-10-06 OpenAI · retires Sept 24, 2026 · Deprecated → move to None listed 3mo left sora-2-2025-12-08 OpenAI · retires Sept 24, 2026 · Deprecated → move to None listed 3mo left sora-2-pro-2025-10-06 OpenAI · retires Sept 24, 2026 · Deprecated → move to None listed 3mo left gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct OpenAI · retires Sept 28, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini or gpt-5-mini 3mo left gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 OpenAI · retires Sept 28, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini or gpt-5-mini 3mo left babbage-002 OpenAI · retires Sept 28, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini or gpt-5-mini 3mo left davinci-002 OpenAI · retires Sept 28, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini or gpt-5-mini 3mo left claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 Anthropic · retires Not sooner than September 29, 2026 3mo left gemini-2.5-flash-image Google · retires Oct 2, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview

Within a year 34

Dated and coming — pin a replacement before it bites.
3mo left claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 Anthropic · retires Not sooner than October 15, 2026 3mo left gemini-2.5-pro Google · retires Oct 16, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gemini-3.1-pro-preview 3mo left gemini-2.5-flash Google · retires Oct 16, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gemini-3.5-flash 3mo left gemini-2.5-flash-lite Google · retires Oct 16, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gemini-3.1-flash-lite 4mo left gpt-image-1 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-image-2 4mo left o1-2024-12-17 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 4mo left o1-pro-2025-03-19 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5-pro 4mo left o3-mini-2025-01-31 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 4mo left o4-mini-2025-04-16 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 4mo left ft-o4-mini-2025-04-16 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 4mo left gpt-4-0613 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 4mo left gpt-4-1106-preview OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 4mo left gpt-4-turbo OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 4mo left gpt-4o-2024-05-13 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 4mo left ft-gpt-4 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.5 4mo left gpt-4.1-nano OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-nano 4mo left ft-gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-nano 4mo left gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 4mo left ft-gpt-3.5-turbo OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 4mo left ft-babbage-002 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 4mo left ft-davinci-002 OpenAI · retires Oct 23, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-5.4-mini 5mo left claude-opus-4-5-20251101 Anthropic · retires Not sooner than November 24, 2026 5mo left v1/prompts API and reusable prompt objectsAPI · SDK OpenAI · retires Nov 30, 2026 · Deprecated → move to Move prompt content into application code 5mo left Evals dashboard and APIAPI · SDK OpenAI · retires Nov 30, 2026 · Deprecated → move to Promptfoo (per migration guide) 5mo left Agent BuilderAPI · SDK OpenAI · retires Nov 30, 2026 · Deprecated → move to Agents SDK or ChatGPT Workspace Agents 5mo left gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI · retires Dec 1, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-image-2 5mo left gpt-image-1.5 OpenAI · retires Dec 1, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-image-2 5mo left chatgpt-image-latest OpenAI · retires Dec 1, 2026 · Deprecated → move to gpt-image-2 6mo left Self-serve fine-tuning job creationAPI · SDK OpenAI · retires Jan 6, 2027 · Deprecated → move to None 7mo left claude-opus-4-6 Anthropic · retires Not sooner than February 5, 2027 8mo left claude-sonnet-4-6 Anthropic · retires Not sooner than February 17, 2027 10mo left claude-opus-4-7 Anthropic · retires Not sooner than April 16, 2027 10mo left gemini-3.1-flash-lite Google · retires May 7, 2027 · Deprecated 11mo left claude-opus-4-8 Anthropic · retires Not sooner than May 28, 2027

Recently retired 12

Already shut down — if you're still calling these, you're getting errors.

Model retirements are restated from each vendor's official deprecation pages; endpoint, parameter & required-body breaking changes are diffed live from official API specs (OpenAI today, more as vendors publish specs). All captured with versioned history. Browse by tool → · See deprecation changes →