OpenAI gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini deprecated 2026-10-14; removed from API 2027-01-14
OpenAI's listed replacement for all of them is gpt-6-luna. Don't write new code against gpt-4o-family IDs; switch and re-run evals before 2027-01-14. Retrain fine-tunes on a supported base.
Symptom
New code defaults to gpt-4o / gpt-4o-mini / gpt-4.1 (the most common model IDs in 2024-2025 examples and model priors). They still respond today but are on a removal schedule.
Cause
On 2026-10-14 OpenAI notified developers that these snapshots are removed from the API on 2027-01-14: gpt-4o-2024-08-06, gpt-4o-2024-11-20, gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18, gpt-4.1-2025-04-14, gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14. Fine-tunes of these models follow the same schedule. (gpt-4o-2024-05-13 and gpt-4.1-nano already have an earlier shutdown of 2026-10-23.)
Verify
List models with client.models.list() and check your usage dashboard for the retiring IDs.
Sources
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