Microsoft Foundry / Azure OpenAI deprecations & model shutdown dates

14 upcoming and 31 past retirements from Microsoft Foundry / Azure OpenAI, taken from the official deprecation page.

Upcoming

Model / APIShutdownReplacement
gpt-4.1-nano (18d)—
Cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026 (20d)coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-fp8 coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-bf16 coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-w4a4
codex-mini (50d)—
o1 (54d)gpt-5.6-sol
o1-pro (54d)gpt-5.6-sol
o3 (54d)gpt-5.6-sol
o3-deep-research (54d)gpt-5.6-sol
o3-mini (54d)gpt-5.6-terra
o3-pro (54d)gpt-5.6-sol
o4-mini (54d)gpt-5.6-terra
gpt-4o (74d)gpt-5.6-sol
gpt-4.1 (200d)—
gpt-4.1-mini (200d)—
gpt-4o-mini (200d)—

Already shut down

Model / APIShutdownReplacement
MAI-Transcribe-1MAI-Transcribe-1.5
TimeGEN-1TimeGPT-1 TimegGPT-2.1
tsuzumi-7btsuzumi2
MAI-Image-2MAI-Image-2.5
MAI-Image-2eMAI-Image-2.5-Flash
DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek-V4-Pro
claude-opus-4-1claude-opus-5
Stable-Diffusion-3.5-Large—
Stable-Image-Core—
Stable-Image-Ultra—
mistral-document-ai-2505mistral-document-ai-2512 mistral-ocr-4-0
sora-2sora-2 (2025-12-08)
DeepSeek-R1-0528DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek-V3-0324DeepSeek-V4-Flash
DeepSeek-V3.1DeepSeek-V4-Flash
gpt-5.1-chatgpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.3-chatgpt-chat-latest
Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct—
Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct—
Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct—
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B—
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct—
Cohere-rerank-v3.5Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro Cohere-rerank-v4.0-fast
gpt-5-chatgpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.2-chatgpt-chat-latest
Cohere-command-r-08-2024—
Cohere-command-r-plus-08-2024—
grok-3grok-4
grok-3-minigrok-4-1-fast-reasoning
grok-4-fast-non-reasoninggrok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
grok-4-fast-reasoninggrok-4-1-fast-reasoning

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