SHUTDOWNS BY MONTH

AI models shut down in May 2026

48 models from 8 providers were shut down or retired in May 2026, including gpt-4o-audio-preview (OpenAI, May 7), gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview (Google, May 25), grok-3-mini@1 (Azure, May 1).

Last updated Oct 23, 2026 · Dates are the providers' own; “no earlier than” dates are marked.

May 1, 20265 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
AzureMicrosoft Azure / Foundry	`grok-3-mini@1` → `grok-4-1-fast-reasoning` `grok-3@1` → `grok-4` `grok-4-fast-non-reasoning@1` → `grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning` `grok-4-fast-reasoning@1` → `grok-4-1-fast-reasoning`	Notice ↗
Together AI	`MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5` retired	Notice ↗

May 7, 20266 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
OpenAI	`gpt-4o-audio-preview` → `gpt-audio-1.5` `gpt-4o-mini-audio-preview` → `gpt-audio-mini` `gpt-4o-mini-realtime-preview` → `gpt-realtime-mini` `gpt-4o-realtime-preview` → `gpt-realtime-1.5` `gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2024-12-17` → `gpt-realtime-1.5` `gpt-4o-realtime-preview-2025-06-03` → `gpt-realtime-1.5`	Notice ↗

May 11, 20261 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
CoreWeave	`zai-org/GLM-5-FP8` retired → `zai-org/GLM-5.1`	Notice ↗

May 12, 20262 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
AzureMicrosoft Azure / Foundry	`Cohere-command-r-08-2024@1` `Cohere-command-r-plus-08-2024@1`	Notice ↗

May 13, 202618 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
Alibaba	`qwen-max (2025-01-25)` `qwen-max latest` `qwen-max qwen-max-2025-01-25` `qwen-max qwen-max-latest` `qwen-turbo (2024-11-01)` `qwen-turbo (2025-04-28)` `qwen-turbo latest` `qwen-turbo qwen-turbo-2024-11-01` `qwen-turbo qwen-turbo-2025-04-28` `qwen-turbo qwen-turbo-latest` `qwen-vl-max (2025-04-08)` `qwen-vl-max (2025-08-13)` `qwen-vl-max latest` `qwen-vl-max qwen-vl-max-2025-04-08` `qwen-vl-max qwen-vl-max-2025-08-13` `qwen-vl-max qwen-vl-max-latest`	Notice ↗
AzureMicrosoft Azure / Foundry	`gpt-5-chat (2025-10-03)` → `gpt-chat-latest` `gpt-5.2-chat (2025-12-11)` → `gpt-chat-latest`	Notice ↗

May 14, 20264 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
AzureMicrosoft Azure / Foundry	`Cohere-rerank-v3.5@1` → `Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro, Cohere-rerank-v4.0-fast`	Notice ↗
Together AI	`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1` `deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1` `Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-FP8`	Notice ↗

May 15, 20261 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
xAI	`grok-code-fast-1` retired	Notice ↗

May 21, 20261 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
Together AI	`moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5` retired	Notice ↗

May 25, 20261 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
Google	`gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview` → `gemini-3.1-flash-lite`Earliest possible date; the provider may stop it later	Notice ↗

May 26, 20262 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
OpenAI	`GPT-5.2` removal `GPT-5.3-Codex` removal	Notice ↗

May 30, 20261 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
Alibaba	`GTE-RERANK` removal → `qwen3-rerank`	Notice ↗

May 31, 20266 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
Mistral	`devstral-medium-2507` retired → `Mistral Medium 3.5` `devstral-small-2507` retired → `Mistral Small 4` `mistral-large-2411` retired → `Mistral Medium 3.5` `mistral-ocr-2505` retired → `OCR 4.1` `pixtral-large-2411` retired → `Mistral Medium 3.5` `voxtral-mini-2507` retired → `Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2`	Notice ↗