How many AI models shut down in March 2026?
7 models have a published shutdown date in March 2026.
7 models have a published shutdown date in March 2026 (OpenAI 4, Google Gemini API 2, Mistral 1). These are exact dates or a published shutdown month. A date that only says not sooner than is a floor and is not counted.
March 2026 is one month inside 2026. The same rows are also on the deadline list for 2026-03. calendar.ics and the calendar include this month. RSS lists newly recorded deprecations. The same model id can have a different date on Vertex, the Gemini API, Azure, or Bedrock. Why shutdown dates differ by platform.
| Shutdown | Provider | Model | Replacement | Other platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-09 source, checked 2026-10-23 | Google Gemini API | gemini-3-pro-preview Release date on the deprecations page: 2025-11-18. | gemini-3.1-pro-preview Switch guide: gemini-3.1-pro-preview | This id is listed for one provider. |
| 2026-03-26 source, checked 2026-10-23 | OpenAI | including and which point to this snapshot (gpt-4-0125-preview) gpt-4-0125-preview | gpt-5 gpt-4.1* Switch guide: gpt-5 | This id is listed for one provider. |
| 2026-03-26 source, checked 2026-10-23 | OpenAI | gpt-4-0314 | gpt-5 gpt-4.1* Switch guide: gpt-5 | This id is listed for one provider. |
| 2026-03-26 source, checked 2026-10-23 | OpenAI | including and which point to this snapshot (gpt-4-turbo-preview) gpt-4-turbo-preview | gpt-5 gpt-4.1* Switch guide: gpt-5 | This id is listed for one provider. |
| 2026-03-26 source, checked 2026-10-23 | OpenAI | including and which point to this snapshot (gpt-4-turbo-preview-completions) gpt-4-turbo-preview-completions | gpt-5 gpt-4.1* Switch guide: gpt-5 | This id is listed for one provider. |
| 2026-03-31 source, checked 2026-10-23 | Google Gemini API | gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 Release date on the deprecations page: 2025-09-25. | gemini-3.1-flash-lite Switch guide: gemini-3.1-flash-lite | This id is listed for one provider. |
| 2026-03-31 source, checked 2026-10-23 | Mistral | Devstral Small 2 (25.12) labs-devstral-small-2512 Replacement named on the models page: Mistral Medium 3.5. | Not published Switch guide | This id is listed for one provider. |
7 models have a published shutdown date in March 2026.
4 OpenAI models have a published shutdown date in March 2026.
No Anthropic model has a published shutdown date in March 2026.
2 Google Gemini API models have a published shutdown date in March 2026.
No Google Vertex AI model has a published shutdown date in March 2026.
No AWS Bedrock model has a published shutdown date in March 2026.
No Azure OpenAI model has a published shutdown date in March 2026.
1 Mistral model has a published shutdown date in March 2026.
OpenAI, Google Gemini API, and Mistral have a published shutdown date in March 2026.
The earliest published shutdown in March 2026 is 2026-03-09. 1 model has that date.
The latest published shutdown in March 2026 is 2026-03-31. 2 models share that date.