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Azure OpenAI models shut down on October 15, 2026

Azure OpenAI shut down 4 models on October 15, 2026: gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20, gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20, gpt-4o-transcribe-2025-03-20, and sora-2-2025-12-08. No official replacement is published for these models. Requests to these models started failing on that date.

This date has passed. The rows below stay up because people still search after requests fail. Azure OpenAI deprecation page · Azure OpenAI on SunsetDiff · Shutdowns in 2026-10

4 Azure OpenAI models with shutdown date 2026-10-15. A replacement cell says "Not published" when the official page did not name one.
Model Status Replacement Migrate Source
gpt-4o-mini-transcribe (2025-03-20) (gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20) retired Not published Not published Azure OpenAI retirement schedule (checked 2026-10-24)
gpt-4o-mini-tts (2025-03-20) (gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20) retired Not published Not published Azure OpenAI retirement schedule (checked 2026-10-24)
gpt-4o-transcribe (2025-03-20) (gpt-4o-transcribe-2025-03-20) retired Not published Not published Azure OpenAI retirement schedule (checked 2026-10-24)
sora-2 (2025-12-08) (sora-2-2025-12-08) retired Not published Not published Azure OpenAI retirement schedule (checked 2026-10-24)

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  1. Find every request that still uses these model ids. They shut down on October 15, 2026.
  2. Point each request at the replacement in the table. If a cell says "Not published", the provider did not name one.
  3. Open the source link on each row and read that page before you switch.
  4. Run the scan page on your code to catch the ids in this table.

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Questions

Which Azure OpenAI models shut down on October 15, 2026?

Azure OpenAI shut down these 4 models on October 15, 2026: gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20, gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20, gpt-4o-transcribe-2025-03-20, and sora-2-2025-12-08.

What replaces the Azure OpenAI models that shut down on October 15, 2026?

No official replacement is published for these models. The table lists the replacement for each model.

On what date did requests to these models fail?

These models shut down on October 15, 2026. Requests started failing on that date.