gpt-4o shuts down on 14 January 2027
gpt-4o goes in two steps: the gpt-4o-2024-05-13 snapshot on 23 October 2026 (replacement: gpt-5.6-sol) and the rest, gpt-4o-2024-08-06 (what the gpt-4o alias points to) and gpt-4o-2024-11-20, on 14 January 2027 (replacement: gpt-6-luna).
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gpt-4o OpenAI
Shutdown date: 14 January 2027
Official replacement: gpt-6-luna
Price per million tokens (input / output): $2.50 / $10 → $0.10 / $0.50
What changes in your code
- Change the name in
model. If it lives in an environment variable or in an n8n, Make or Zapier setting, change it there. - The new models reason by default (
medium): slower and more tokens. To answer like the old one, setreasoning_effort: "none"in Chat Completions orreasoning: { effort: "none" }in the Responses API. - If you send
temperature,top_porlogprobs, keep reasoning atnone: at any other level the API rejects them (per the GPT-5.4 and GPT-6 guides). max_tokensis deprecated: usemax_completion_tokens(ormax_output_tokensin Responses). With reasoning on, that limit is spent on reasoning too: leave room.- Function calling in Chat Completions only works with
reasoning_effort: "none". To reason and call tools together, move to the Responses API. - The new models don’t support the old
/v1/completionsendpoint or fine-tuning (each model’s page says so).
Example code
Python
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI() # reads OPENAI_API_KEY from the environment
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-6-luna", # was: "gpt-4o"
reasoning_effort="none", # answers like the old one, no reasoning
max_completion_tokens=500, # was: max_tokens=500
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Node.js
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI(); // reads OPENAI_API_KEY from the environment
const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "gpt-6-luna", // was: "gpt-4o"
reasoning_effort: "none", // answers like the old one, no reasoning
max_completion_tokens: 500, // was: max_tokens: 500
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(resp.choices[0].message.content);Sources: OpenAI · Deprecations · Upgrading to GPT-5.6 · Using GPT-6 · Chat Completions API
gpt-4o-2024-05-13 OpenAI
Shutdown date: 23 October 2026
Official replacement: gpt-5.6-sol
Sources: OpenAI · Deprecations
We’ll email you before your model is switched off
One email 30 days before and another 7 days before the official date, with the replacement and what changes in the code. Free, no account, no marketing.
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npx -y github:ericc2005t/ai-model-sunsetQuestions
- How do I know which version I use?
- If the code just says
gpt-4o, you use gpt-4o-2024-08-06: January for you. If it saysgpt-4o-2024-05-13, 23 October. - Is gpt-6-luna worse than gpt-4o?
- It’s the replacement OpenAI recommends. Its migration guide suggests, for latency-sensitive gpt-4o flows, trying the small models first and moving up only if quality needs it. Test it on your cases.
- What about gpt-4o’s audio and realtime?
- Separately: gpt-4o-audio and gpt-4o-realtime shut down on 20/01/2027, and gpt-4o-transcribe on 26/02/2027.
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