OpenAI to retire gpt-5 and o3 models from its API on 11 December 2026
On 11 December 2026, OpenAI will remove gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, gpt-5-pro, o3 and o3-pro, along with their dated snapshots, from the API, after which calls to them will fail. OpenAI named the GPT-5.6 family (sol, terra and luna) as replacements, with o3 and o3-pro moving to GPT-5.6 rather than an o-series successor. Fine-tuned models built on these bases will also stop working on the same date. The announcement was made on 11 June 2026, and two other OpenAI shutdowns, the Evals platform and v1/prompts on 30 November and older GPT Image models on 1 December, come just before. The article advises developers to find affected model IDs in code, configuration, databases and Azure deployments, and to compare old and new model outputs on real prompts while the old model is still available.
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