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End-of-life and end-of-support dates for the Azure versions we track, with days remaining on each. Announced pricing, configuration-default and retirement changes are covered for AWS, GCP and Azure today, and are being extended to the rest. For day-to-day announcements, see the Azure release feed.

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Azure AI Foundry model retirements (129)

Models Azure has published a retirement date for, soonest first. A model ID is a dependency with an expiry date, not a stable configuration value, and the platform retires on its own schedule — a date here can differ from the model vendor's own page. Details & FAQ →

Model End of life Status
DeepSeek-R1 1 13 Aug 2026 end of life
MAI-Image-2e 2026-04-09 15 Aug 2026 1 days left
MAI-Image-2 2026-02-20 15 Aug 2026 1 days left
gpt-chat-latest 2026-05-28 28 Aug 2026 14 days left
gpt-chat-latest 2026-06-24 28 Aug 2026 14 days left
model-router 2025-05-19 30 Aug 2026 16 days left
model-router 2025-08-07 30 Aug 2026 16 days left
gpt-realtime-2 2026-05-06 31 Aug 2026 17 days left
TimeGEN-1 1 31 Aug 2026 17 days left
tsuzumi-7b 2 31 Aug 2026 17 days left
sora-2 2025-12-08 15 Sept 2026 32 days left
gpt-4o 2024-05-13 1 Oct 2026 48 days left
o3-mini 2025-01-31 1 Oct 2026 48 days left
Kimi-K2.7-Code 2026-06-12 3 Oct 2026 50 days left
Cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026 1 13 Oct 2026 60 days left
gpt-4.1-nano 2025-04-14 14 Oct 2026 61 days left
gpt-4o-mini-transcribe 2025-03-20 15 Oct 2026 62 days left
gpt-4o-mini-tts 2025-03-20 15 Oct 2026 62 days left
gpt-4o-transcribe 2025-03-20 15 Oct 2026 62 days left
o4-mini 2025-04-16 16 Oct 2026 63 days left
claude-haiku-4-5 — 19 Oct 2026 66 days left
claude-opus-4-5 — 19 Oct 2026 66 days left
claude-sonnet-4-5 — 19 Oct 2026 66 days left
o1 2024-12-17 21 Oct 2026 68 days left
o1-pro 2025-03-19 21 Oct 2026 68 days left
o3 2025-04-16 21 Oct 2026 68 days left
gpt-image-1 2025-04-15 23 Oct 2026 70 days left
codex-mini 2025-05-16 15 Nov 2026 93 days left
tts 001 15 Dec 2026 123 days left
tts-hd 001 15 Dec 2026 123 days left
whisper 001 15 Dec 2026 123 days left
o3-pro 2025-06-10 17 Dec 2026 125 days left
o3-deep-research 2025-06-26 26 Dec 2026 134 days left
Kimi-K2.5 1 26 Jan 2027 165 days left
claude-opus-4-6 — 2 Feb 2027 172 days left
gpt-5 2025-08-07 9 Feb 2027 179 days left
gpt-5-mini 2025-08-07 9 Feb 2027 179 days left
gpt-5-nano 2025-08-07 9 Feb 2027 179 days left
claude-sonnet-4-6 — 10 Feb 2027 180 days left
gpt-audio 2025-08-28 2 Mar 2027 200 days left
gpt-realtime 2025-08-28 2 Mar 2027 200 days left
gpt-5-codex 2025-09-15 17 Mar 2027 215 days left
gpt-audio-mini 2025-10-06 6 Apr 2027 235 days left
gpt-realtime-mini 2025-10-06 6 Apr 2027 235 days left
grok-4-20-non-reasoning 1 6 Apr 2027 235 days left
grok-4-20-reasoning 1 6 Apr 2027 235 days left
claude-opus-4-7 — 6 Apr 2027 235 days left
gpt-5-pro 2025-10-06 7 Apr 2027 236 days left
gpt-image-1-mini 2025-10-06 7 Apr 2027 236 days left
gpt-4.1 2025-04-14 14 Apr 2027 243 days left
gpt-4.1-mini 2025-04-14 14 Apr 2027 243 days left
gpt-4o 2024-08-06 14 Apr 2027 243 days left
gpt-4o 2024-11-20 14 Apr 2027 243 days left
gpt-4o-mini 2024-07-18 14 Apr 2027 243 days left
gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize 2025-10-15 15 Apr 2027 244 days left
Kimi-K2.6 2026-04-20 16 Apr 2027 245 days left
gpt-5.1 2025-11-13 15 May 2027 274 days left
gpt-5.1-codex 2025-11-13 15 May 2027 274 days left
gpt-5.1-codex-mini 2025-11-13 15 May 2027 274 days left
gpt-5.1-codex-max 2025-12-04 18 May 2027 277 days left
model-router 2025-11-18 20 May 2027 279 days left
gpt-5.2 2025-12-11 8 Jun 2027 298 days left
gpt-4o-mini-transcribe 2025-12-15 15 Jun 2027 305 days left
gpt-4o-mini-tts 2025-12-15 15 Jun 2027 305 days left
gpt-audio-mini 2025-12-15 15 Jun 2027 305 days left
gpt-realtime-mini 2025-12-15 15 Jun 2027 305 days left
gpt-image-1.5 2025-12-16 16 Jun 2027 306 days left
gpt-realtime-2.1 2026-07-07 25 Jun 2027 315 days left
gpt-realtime-2.1-mini 2026-07-07 25 Jun 2027 315 days left
FW-DeepSeek-V3.1 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-DeepSeek-V3.2 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-GLM-4.7 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-GLM-5 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-GLM-5.1 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-GPT-OSS-120B 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-Kimi-K2-Thinking 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-Kimi-K2.5 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-MiniMax-M2.5 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-Qwen3-14B 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
FW-Qwen3.5-397B-A17B 1 1 Jul 2027 321 days left
gpt-5.2-codex 2026-01-14 13 Jul 2027 333 days left
gpt-5.3-codex 2026-02-24 24 Aug 2027 375 days left
gpt-audio-1.5 2026-02-23 24 Aug 2027 375 days left
gpt-realtime-1.5 2026-02-23 24 Aug 2027 375 days left
gpt-5.4 2026-03-05 2 Sept 2027 384 days left
gpt-5.4-pro 2026-03-05 7 Sept 2027 389 days left
gpt-5.4-mini 2026-03-17 21 Sept 2027 403 days left
gpt-5.4-nano 2026-03-17 21 Sept 2027 403 days left
gpt-image-2 2026-04-21 21 Oct 2027 433 days left
gpt-5.5 2026-04-24 26 Oct 2027 438 days left
gpt-5.6-luna 2026-07-09 11 Jan 2028 515 days left
gpt-5.6-sol 2026-07-09 11 Jan 2028 515 days left
gpt-5.6-terra 2026-07-09 11 Jan 2028 515 days left
text-embedding-3-large 1 9 Feb 2028 544 days left
text-embedding-3-small 1 9 Feb 2028 544 days left
text-embedding-ada-002 1 9 Feb 2028 544 days left
text-embedding-ada-002 2 9 Feb 2028 544 days left
DeepSeek-V4-Flash 2026-04-23 20 Feb 2028 555 days left
DeepSeek-V4-Pro 2026-04-23 20 Feb 2028 555 days left
Archive: 28 already retired
Model End of life Status
grok-3 1 1 May 2026 end of life
grok-3-mini 1 1 May 2026 end of life
grok-4-fast-non-reasoning 1 1 May 2026 end of life
grok-4-fast-reasoning 1 1 May 2026 end of life
Cohere-command-r-08-2024 1 12 May 2026 end of life
Cohere-command-r-plus-08-2024 1 12 May 2026 end of life
gpt-5-chat 2025-10-03 13 May 2026 end of life
gpt-5.2-chat 2025-12-11 13 May 2026 end of life
Cohere-rerank-v3.5 1 14 May 2026 end of life
Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct — 13 Jun 2026 end of life
Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct — 13 Jun 2026 end of life
Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct — 13 Jun 2026 end of life
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B — 13 Jun 2026 end of life
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct — 13 Jun 2026 end of life
gpt-5-chat 2025-08-07 29 Jun 2026 end of life
gpt-5.1-chat 2025-11-13 29 Jun 2026 end of life
gpt-5.2-chat 2026-02-10 29 Jun 2026 end of life
gpt-5.3-chat 2026-03-03 29 Jun 2026 end of life
DeepSeek-R1-0528 1 13 Jul 2026 end of life
DeepSeek-V3-0324 1 13 Jul 2026 end of life
DeepSeek-V3.1 1 13 Jul 2026 end of life
sora-2 2025-10-06 15 Jul 2026 end of life
mistral-document-ai-2505 1 20 Jul 2026 end of life
Stable-Diffusion-3.5-Large 1 31 Jul 2026 end of life
Stable-Image-Core 1 31 Jul 2026 end of life
Stable-Image-Ultra 1 31 Jul 2026 end of life
gpt-chat-latest 2026-05-05 5 Aug 2026 end of life
claude-opus-4-1 — 5 Aug 2026 end of life

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