OpenAI shuts down gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-3.5-turbo, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini, o4-mini, gpt-image-1 on 2026-10-23
OpenAI's substitutes:
| shut down | substitute |
|---|---|
| gpt-3.5-turbo*, o4-mini | gpt-5.6-terra |
| gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, o1, o3-mini | gpt-5.6-sol |
| o1-pro | gpt-5.6-sol with reasoning.mode: pro |
| gpt-4.1-nano | gpt-5.6-luna |
| gpt-image-1 | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare |
The gpt-5.6 alias routes to gpt-5.6-sol (changelog).
Symptom
Scripts using gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-3.5-turbo, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini, o4-mini, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13 or gpt-image-1 stop working.
Cause
Announced 2026-04-22, shutdown date 2026-10-23 (including aliases such as gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, o1, o3-mini, o4-mini and the -completions variants, plus fine-tunes ft-gpt-3.5-turbo, ft-gpt-4, ft-babbage-002, ft-davinci-002).
Verify
grep -rnE 'gpt-3\.5|gpt-4-turbo|"o1"|o3-mini|o4-mini' . shows no remaining call sites.
Sources
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Related
- OpenAI gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, o3, o3-pro snapshots removed 2026-12-11Code pinned to the original GPT-5 family (gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07, gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07, gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06) or to o3-2025-04-16 / o3-pro-2025-06-10 is scheduled to break.