Azure OpenAI

Official source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirements. Soonest shutdowns on the homepage.

Soonest shutdowns

gpt-5-chat (2025-10-03) — 2026-05-13 · replacement diff
gpt-5.2-chat (2025-12-11) — 2026-05-13 · replacement diff
gpt-5-chat (2025-08-07) — 2026-06-29 · replacement diff
gpt-5.1-chat (2025-11-13) — 2026-06-29 · replacement diff
gpt-5.2-chat (2026-02-10) — 2026-06-29 · replacement diff
gpt-5.3-chat (2026-03-03) — 2026-06-29 · replacement diff
sora-2 (2025-10-06) — 2026-07-15
gpt-realtime-mini (2025-10-06) — 2026-09-21

deprecated

Azure OpenAI deprecated models
Model	Shutdown	Replacement
codex-mini (2025-05-16) `codex-mini-2025-05-16`	2026-11-15	Not published
gpt-4o (2024-05-13) `gpt-4o-2024-05-13`	2026-12-09	gpt-5.6-sol
o1 (2024-12-17) `o1-2024-12-17`	2026-11-19	gpt-5.6-sol
o1-pro (2025-03-19) `o1-pro-2025-03-19`	2026-11-19	gpt-5.6-sol
o3 (2025-04-16) `o3-2025-04-16`	2026-11-19	gpt-5.6-sol
o3-deep-research (2025-06-26) `o3-deep-research-2025-06-26`	2026-11-19	gpt-5.6-sol
o3-mini (2025-01-31) `o3-mini-2025-01-31`	2026-11-19	gpt-5.6-terra
o3-pro (2025-06-10) `o3-pro-2025-06-10`	2026-11-19	gpt-5.6-sol

legacy

Azure OpenAI legacy models
Model	Shutdown	Replacement
gpt-4o (2024-11-20) `gpt-4o-2024-11-20`	2027-04-14	gpt-5.1

retired

Azure OpenAI retired models
Model	Shutdown	Replacement
gpt-4o-mini-transcribe (2025-03-20) `gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20`	2026-10-15	Not published
gpt-4o-mini-tts (2025-03-20) `gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20`	2026-10-15	Not published
gpt-4o-transcribe (2025-03-20) `gpt-4o-transcribe-2025-03-20`	2026-10-15	Not published
gpt-5-chat (2025-08-07) `gpt-5-chat-2025-08-07`	2026-06-29	gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5-chat (2025-10-03) `gpt-5-chat-2025-10-03`	2026-05-13	gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.1-chat (2025-11-13) `gpt-5.1-chat-2025-11-13`	2026-06-29	gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.2-chat (2025-12-11) `gpt-5.2-chat-2025-12-11`	2026-05-13	gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.2-chat (2026-02-10) `gpt-5.2-chat-2026-02-10`	2026-06-29	gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.3-chat (2026-03-03) `gpt-5.3-chat-2026-03-03`	2026-06-29	gpt-chat-latest
gpt-realtime-mini (2025-10-06) `gpt-realtime-mini-2025-10-06`	2026-09-21	Not published
sora-2 (2025-10-06) `sora-2-2025-10-06`	2026-07-15	Not published
sora-2 (2025-12-08) `sora-2-2025-12-08`	2026-10-15	Not published

active

Azure OpenAI active models
Model	Shutdown	Replacement
gpt-4.1 2025-04-14 `gpt-4.1-2025-04-14`	2027-10-14	Not published
gpt-4.1-mini 2025-04-14 `gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14`	2027-10-14	Not published
gpt-4.1-nano 2025-04-14 `gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14`	2027-10-14	Not published
gpt-4o 2024-08-06 `gpt-4o-2024-08-06`	2027-10-01	Not published
gpt-4o-mini 2024-07-18 `gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18`	2027-10-01	Not published
gpt-4o-mini-transcribe (2025-12-15) `gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15`	2027-06-15	Not published
gpt-4o-mini-tts (2025-12-15) `gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15`	2027-06-15	Not published
gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize (2025-10-15) `gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize-2025-10-15`	2027-04-15	Not published
gpt-5 (2025-08-07) `gpt-5-2025-08-07`	2027-02-09	Not published
gpt-5-codex (2025-09-15) `gpt-5-codex-2025-09-15`	2027-03-17	Not published
gpt-5-mini (2025-08-07) `gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07`	2027-02-09	Not published
gpt-5-nano (2025-08-07) `gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07`	2027-02-09	Not published
gpt-5-pro (2025-10-06) `gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06`	2027-04-07	Not published
gpt-5.1 `gpt-5.1`	Not published	Not published
gpt-5.1 (2025-11-13) `gpt-5.1-2025-11-13`	2027-05-15	Not published
gpt-5.1-codex (2025-11-13) `gpt-5.1-codex-2025-11-13`	2027-05-15	Not published
gpt-5.1-codex-max (2025-12-04) `gpt-5.1-codex-max-2025-12-04`	2027-05-18	Not published
gpt-5.1-codex-mini (2025-11-13) `gpt-5.1-codex-mini-2025-11-13`	2027-05-15	Not published
gpt-5.2 (2025-12-11) `gpt-5.2-2025-12-11`	2027-06-08	Not published
gpt-5.2-codex (2026-01-14) `gpt-5.2-codex-2026-01-14`	2027-07-13	Not published
gpt-5.3-codex (2026-02-24) `gpt-5.3-codex-2026-02-24`	2027-08-24	Not published
gpt-5.4 (2026-03-05) `gpt-5.4-2026-03-05`	2027-09-02	Not published
gpt-5.4-mini (2026-03-17) `gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17`	2027-09-21	Not published
gpt-5.4-nano (2026-03-17) `gpt-5.4-nano-2026-03-17`	2027-09-21	Not published
gpt-5.4-pro (2026-03-05) `gpt-5.4-pro-2026-03-05`	2027-09-07	Not published
gpt-5.5 (2026-04-24) `gpt-5.5-2026-04-24`	2027-10-26	Not published
gpt-5.6-luna (2026-07-09) `gpt-5.6-luna-2026-07-09`	2028-01-11	Not published
gpt-5.6-sol `gpt-5.6-sol`	Not published	Not published
gpt-5.6-sol (2026-07-09) `gpt-5.6-sol-2026-07-09`	2028-01-11	Not published
gpt-5.6-terra `gpt-5.6-terra`	Not published	Not published
gpt-5.6-terra (2026-07-09) `gpt-5.6-terra-2026-07-09`	2028-01-11	Not published
gpt-audio-1.5 (2026-02-23) `gpt-audio-1.5-2026-02-23`	2027-08-24	Not published
gpt-audio (2025-08-28) `gpt-audio-2025-08-28`	2027-03-02	Not published
gpt-audio-mini (2025-10-06) `gpt-audio-mini-2025-10-06`	2027-04-06	Not published
gpt-audio-mini (2025-12-15) `gpt-audio-mini-2025-12-15`	2027-06-15	Not published
gpt-chat-latest `gpt-chat-latest`	Not published	Not published
gpt-chat-latest (2026-05-05) `gpt-chat-latest-2026-05-05`	2026-11-17	Not published
gpt-chat-latest (2026-05-28) `gpt-chat-latest-2026-05-28`	2026-12-08	Not published
gpt-chat-latest (2026-06-24) `gpt-chat-latest-2026-06-24`	2026-11-17	Not published
gpt-chat-latest (2026-08-06) `gpt-chat-latest-2026-08-06`	2027-01-12	Not published
gpt-chat-latest (2026-10-07) `gpt-chat-latest-2026-10-07`	2027-05-18	Not published
gpt-image-1 (2025-04-15) `gpt-image-1-2025-04-15`	2026-10-23	Not published
gpt-image-1-mini (2025-10-06) `gpt-image-1-mini-2025-10-06`	2027-04-07	Not published
gpt-image-1.5 (2025-12-16) `gpt-image-1.5-2025-12-16`	2026-12-16	Not published
gpt-image-2 (2026-04-21) `gpt-image-2-2026-04-21`	2027-10-21	Not published
gpt-image-2.5-flare (2026-09-09) `gpt-image-2.5-flare-2026-09-09`	2027-09-09	Not published
gpt-image-2.5-sunburst (2026-09-09) `gpt-image-2.5-sunburst-2026-09-09`	2027-09-09	Not published
gpt-realtime-1.5 (2026-02-23) `gpt-realtime-1.5-2026-02-23`	2027-08-24	Not published
gpt-realtime-2 (2026-05-06) `gpt-realtime-2-2026-05-06`	Not published	gpt-realtime-2.1
gpt-realtime-2.1 `gpt-realtime-2.1`	Not published	Not published
gpt-realtime-2.1 (2026-07-07) `gpt-realtime-2.1-2026-07-07`	2027-06-25	Not published
gpt-realtime-2.1-mini (2026-07-07) `gpt-realtime-2.1-mini-2026-07-07`	2027-06-25	Not published
gpt-realtime (2025-08-28) `gpt-realtime-2025-08-28`	2027-03-02	Not published
gpt-realtime-mini (2025-12-15) `gpt-realtime-mini-2025-12-15`	2026-12-15	Not published
o4-mini 2025-04-16 `o4-mini-2025-04-16`	2027-11-19	Not published
text-embedding-3-large (1) `text-embedding-3-large-1`	2028-02-09	Not published
text-embedding-3-small (1) `text-embedding-3-small-1`	2028-02-09	Not published
text-embedding-ada-002 (2) `text-embedding-ada-002`	2028-02-09	Not published
text-embedding-ada-002 (1) `text-embedding-ada-002-1`	2028-02-09	Not published
tts (001) `tts-001`	2026-12-15	Not published
tts-hd (001) `tts-hd-001`	2026-12-15	Not published
whisper (001) `whisper-001`	2026-12-15	Not published