This article lists the retirement schedule for Foundry Models — their current lifecycle stage, retirement date, and suggested replacement. Use it to plan migrations before a model is deprecated or retired. For details on what each lifecycle stage means and how notifications work, see Microsoft Foundry Models lifecycle and support policy.
Foundry Models sold directly by Azure
This section lists the retirement lifecycle for Foundry Models sold directly by Azure.
Azure OpenAI
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| codex-mini |
2025-05-16 |
GA |
2026-11-15 |
— |
| gpt-4.1 |
2025-04-14 |
GA |
2026-10-14 |
— |
| gpt-4.1-mini |
2025-04-14 |
GA |
2026-10-14 |
— |
| gpt-4.1-nano |
2025-04-14 |
GA |
2026-10-14 |
— |
| gpt-4o |
2024-05-13 |
Deprecated |
2026-10-01 |
gpt-5.1 |
| gpt-4o |
2024-08-06 |
Deprecated |
2026-10-01 |
gpt-5.1 |
| gpt-4o |
2024-11-20 |
GA |
2026-10-01 |
gpt-4.1 |
| gpt-4o-mini |
2024-07-18 |
GA |
2026-10-01 |
gpt-4.1-mini |
| gpt-4o-mini-transcribe |
2025-03-20 |
GA |
2026-06-01 |
— |
| gpt-4o-mini-transcribe |
2025-12-15 |
GA |
2026-12-15 |
— |
| gpt-4o-mini-tts |
2025-03-20 |
Preview |
2026-06-01 |
— |
| gpt-4o-mini-tts |
2025-12-15 |
GA |
2026-12-15 |
— |
| gpt-4o-transcribe |
2025-03-20 |
GA |
2026-06-01 |
— |
| gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize |
2025-10-15 |
GA |
2027-04-16 |
— |
| gpt-5 |
2025-08-07 |
GA |
2027-02-06 |
— |
| gpt-5-chat |
2025-08-07 |
Preview |
2026-05-13 |
gpt-5.3-chat |
| gpt-5-chat |
2025-10-03 |
Preview |
2026-05-13 |
gpt-5.3-chat |
| gpt-5-codex |
2025-09-15 |
GA |
2027-03-17 |
— |
| gpt-5-mini |
2025-08-07 |
GA |
2027-02-06 |
— |
| gpt-5-nano |
2025-08-07 |
GA |
2027-02-06 |
— |
| gpt-5-pro |
2025-10-06 |
GA |
2027-04-07 |
— |
| gpt-5.1 |
2025-11-13 |
GA |
2027-05-15 |
— |
| gpt-5.1-chat |
2025-11-13 |
Preview |
2026-05-13 |
gpt-5.3-chat |
| gpt-5.1-codex |
2025-11-13 |
GA |
2027-05-15 |
— |
| gpt-5.1-codex-max |
2025-12-04 |
GA |
2026-12-05 |
— |
| gpt-5.1-codex-mini |
2025-11-13 |
GA |
2027-05-15 |
— |
| gpt-5.2 |
2025-12-11 |
GA |
2026-12-12 |
— |
| gpt-5.2-chat |
2025-12-11 |
Preview |
2026-05-13 |
gpt-5.3-chat |
| gpt-5.2-chat |
2026-02-10 |
Preview |
2026-06-09 |
— |
| gpt-5.2-codex |
2026-01-14 |
GA |
2027-01-14 |
— |
| gpt-5.3-chat |
2026-03-03 |
Preview |
2026-06-03 |
— |
| gpt-5.3-codex |
2026-02-24 |
GA |
2027-02-25 |
— |
| gpt-5.4 |
2026-03-05 |
GA |
2027-03-05 |
— |
| gpt-5.4-mini |
2026-03-17 |
GA |
2027-03-18 |
— |
| gpt-5.4-nano |
2026-03-17 |
GA |
2027-03-18 |
— |
| gpt-5.4-pro |
2026-03-05 |
GA |
2027-03-06 |
— |
| gpt-5.5 |
2026-04-24 |
GA |
2027-04-23 |
— |
| gpt-audio |
2025-08-28 |
GA |
2027-02-28 |
— |
| gpt-audio-1.5 |
2026-02-23 |
GA |
2027-02-23 |
— |
| gpt-audio-mini |
2025-10-06 |
GA |
2027-04-07 |
— |
| gpt-audio-mini |
2025-12-15 |
GA |
2026-12-15 |
— |
| gpt-image-1 |
2025-04-15 |
Preview |
2026-05-15 |
— |
| gpt-image-1-mini |
2025-10-06 |
GA |
2027-04-07 |
— |
| gpt-image-1.5 |
2025-12-16 |
GA |
2026-12-16 |
— |
| gpt-image-2 |
2026-04-21 |
GA |
2027-04-21 |
— |
| gpt-realtime |
2025-08-28 |
GA |
2027-02-28 |
— |
| gpt-realtime-1.5 |
2026-02-23 |
GA |
2027-02-23 |
— |
| gpt-realtime-mini |
2025-10-06 |
GA |
2027-04-07 |
— |
| gpt-realtime-mini |
2025-12-15 |
GA |
2026-12-15 |
— |
| o1 |
2024-12-17 |
Deprecated |
2026-07-15 |
— |
| o3 |
2025-04-16 |
GA |
2026-10-16 |
— |
| o3-deep-research |
2025-06-26 |
GA |
2026-12-26 |
— |
| o3-mini |
2025-01-31 |
Deprecated |
2026-08-02 |
o4-mini |
| o3-pro |
2025-06-10 |
GA |
2026-12-10 |
— |
| o4-mini |
2025-04-16 |
GA |
2026-10-16 |
— |
| sora-2 |
2025-10-06 |
Preview |
2026-06-03 |
— |
| text-embedding-3-large |
1 |
GA |
2027-04-15 |
— |
| text-embedding-3-small |
1 |
GA |
2027-04-15 |
— |
| text-embedding-ada-002 |
1 |
GA |
2027-04-15 |
— |
| text-embedding-ada-002 |
2 |
GA |
2027-04-15 |
— |
| tts |
001 |
Preview |
2026-06-18 |
— |
| tts-hd |
001 |
GA |
2026-06-18 |
— |
| whisper |
001 |
GA |
2026-06-18 |
— |
Black Forest Labs
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| FLUX-1.1-pro |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| FLUX.1-Kontext-pro |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| FLUX.2-flex |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| FLUX.2-pro |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
Cohere
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| Cohere-rerank-v4.0-fast |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| cohere-command-a |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| embed-v-4-0 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
DeepSeek
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| DeepSeek-R1 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| DeepSeek-R1-0528 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| DeepSeek-V3-0324 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
— |
GA |
— |
— |
| Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 |
— |
GA |
— |
— |
Microsoft
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| model-router |
2025-11-18 |
GA |
2027-05-20 |
— |
Mistral AI
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| Mistral-Large-3 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| mistral-document-ai-2505 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| mistral-document-ai-2512 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
MoonshotAI
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| Kimi-K2.5 |
1 |
Preview |
2027-01-26 |
— |
OpenAI-OSS
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| gpt-oss-120b |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
xAI
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| grok-3 |
1 |
Deprecated |
2026-05-01 |
grok-4 |
| grok-3-mini |
1 |
Deprecated |
2026-05-01 |
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning |
| grok-4 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| grok-4-1-fast-reasoning |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| grok-4-20-non-reasoning |
1 |
Preview |
2027-04-06 |
— |
| grok-4-20-reasoning |
1 |
Preview |
2027-04-06 |
— |
| grok-4-fast-non-reasoning |
1 |
Deprecated |
2026-05-01 |
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning |
| grok-4-fast-reasoning |
1 |
Deprecated |
2026-05-01 |
grok-4-1-fast-reasoning |
| grok-code-fast-1 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
Foundry Models from partners and community
This section lists the retirement lifecycle for Foundry Models sold by partners via Azure Marketplace.
Anthropic
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| claude-haiku-4-5 |
— |
Preview |
2026-10-19 |
— |
| claude-mythos-preview (gated research preview) |
— |
Preview |
2027-04-02 |
— |
| claude-opus-4-1 |
— |
Preview |
2026-10-19 |
— |
| claude-opus-4-5 |
— |
Preview |
2026-10-19 |
— |
| claude-opus-4-6 |
— |
Preview |
2027-02-02 |
— |
| claude-sonnet-4-5 |
— |
Preview |
2026-10-19 |
— |
| claude-sonnet-4-6 |
— |
Preview |
2027-02-10 |
— |
Cohere
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| Cohere-command-r-08-2024 |
1 |
Deprecated |
2026-05-12 |
— |
| Cohere-command-r-plus-08-2024 |
1 |
Deprecated |
2026-05-12 |
— |
| Cohere-rerank-v3.5 |
1 |
Deprecated |
2026-05-14 |
Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro, Cohere-rerank-v4.0-fast |
| Cohere-embed-v3-english |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| Cohere-embed-v3-multilingual |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct |
— |
Deprecated |
2026-06-13 |
— |
| Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct |
— |
Deprecated |
2026-06-13 |
— |
| Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct |
— |
GA |
— |
— |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct |
— |
Deprecated |
2026-06-13 |
— |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B |
— |
Deprecated |
2026-06-13 |
— |
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct |
— |
Deprecated |
2026-06-13 |
— |
Microsoft
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| Phi-4 |
— |
GA |
— |
— |
| Phi-4-mini-instruct |
— |
GA |
— |
— |
| Phi-4-mini-reasoning |
— |
GA |
— |
— |
| Phi-4-multimodal-instruct |
— |
GA |
— |
— |
| Phi-4-reasoning |
— |
GA |
— |
— |
Mistral AI
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| Codestral-2501 |
2 |
GA |
— |
— |
| Ministral-3B |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| Mistral-large |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| mistral-medium-2505 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
| mistral-small-2503 |
1 |
GA |
— |
— |
MoonshotAI
| Model |
Version |
Lifecycle |
Retirement date |
Replacement |
| Kimi-K2.6 |
2026-04-20 |
Preview |
2027-04-16 |
— |
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