SHUTDOWNS BY MONTH

AI models shutting down in January 2027

29 models from 4 providers are scheduled to shut down or retire in January 2027, including gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20 (OpenAI, Jan 6), gpt-chat-latest (2026-08-06) (Azure, Jan 12), anthropic.claude-opus-4-1-20250805-v1:0 (Amazon Bedrock, Jan 8).

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

Jan 6, 20274 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
OpenAI	`gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20` → `gpt-realtime-2.1-mini` `gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15` → `gpt-realtime-2.1-mini` `tts-1` → `gpt-realtime-2.1-mini` `tts-1-hd` → `gpt-realtime-2.1-mini`	Notice ↗

Jan 8, 20271 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
Amazon BedrockAmazon Bedrock	`anthropic.claude-opus-4-1-20250805-v1:0`	Notice ↗

Jan 12, 20271 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
AzureMicrosoft Azure / Foundry	`gpt-chat-latest (2026-08-06)`Deadline moved from Dec 2, 2026 to Jan 12, 2027	Notice ↗

Jan 14, 20275 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
OpenAI	`gpt-4.1-2025-04-14` → `gpt-6-luna` `gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14` → `gpt-6-luna` `gpt-4o-2024-08-06` → `gpt-6-luna` `gpt-4o-2024-11-20` → `gpt-6-luna` `gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18` → `gpt-6-luna`	Notice ↗

Jan 15, 20271 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
AzureMicrosoft Azure / Foundry	`claude-opus-5-5-fast@2`	Notice ↗

Jan 17, 20275 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
AzureMicrosoft Azure / Foundry	`Phi-4` → `microsoft--phi-4 (Foundry Managed Compute)` `Phi-4-mini-instruct` → `microsoft--phi-4 (Foundry Managed Compute)` `Phi-4-mini-reasoning` → `microsoft--phi-4 (Foundry Managed Compute)` `Phi-4-multimodal-instruct` → `microsoft--phi-4 (Foundry Managed Compute)` `Phi-4-reasoning` → `microsoft--phi-4 (Foundry Managed Compute)`	Notice ↗

Jan 20, 20279 models

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
OpenAI	`gpt-4o-audio family` → `gpt-audio-1.5` `gpt-4o-mini-audio family` → `gpt-audio-1.5` `gpt-4o-mini-realtime family` → `gpt-realtime-2.1-mini` `gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20` → `gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15` `gpt-4o-realtime family` → `gpt-realtime-2.1` `gpt-audio` → `gpt-audio-1.5` `gpt-audio-mini` → `gpt-audio-1.5` `gpt-realtime` → `gpt-realtime-2.1` `gpt-realtime-mini` → `gpt-realtime-2.1-mini`	Notice ↗

Jan 26, 20271 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
AzureMicrosoft Azure / Foundry	`Kimi-K2.5@1`	Notice ↗

Jan 28, 20271 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
VertexGoogle Cloud Vertex AI	`gemini-3.7-flash` → `gemini-3.8-flash`	Notice ↗

Jan 31, 20271 model

Provider · route	Models and replacements	Source
AzureMicrosoft Azure / Foundry	`Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct`	Notice ↗