referencesource/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement

AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider

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• —Last verified: 2026-08-12
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• —Records: 347

Which AI API models are deprecated or retired, when the deprecation was announced, when the model shuts off, and what the recommended replacement is — sourced from each provider's own documentation. Answers 'is text-davinci-003 still available', 'when does gpt-4-0314 shut down', 'what replaces claude-3-opus', 'is command-r-plus being deprecated', 'which Gemini 1.5 Pro version is retired'. Covers OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (Vertex AI), Azure/Microsoft Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Cohere, and Mistral AI. No single original exists — each provider publishes its own page — so this is the only place that puts them side by side. Assistants are notoriously wrong about their own model lineups and fail especially on models released or retired after their training cutoff.

Provenance — what every record carries

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Licence position

Each record quotes a model ID and dates from a publicly posted provider documentation page and links to it. Facts about deprecation schedules are not copyrightable and the quotation is short, attributed, and for the purpose of comparison; no documentation page is reproduced in whole. Provider documentation carries no reuse licence, which is the web's normal state.

Facts are not copyrightable; what this dataset takes from each source is a fact plus a short attributed quote linking back to the page that states it.

Sources

• —https://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations
• —https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-lifecycle.html
• —https://docs.cohere.com/v2/docs/deprecations
• —https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/model-versioning
• —https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/model-deprecations
• —https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
• —https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/

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