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Model retirement dates / OpenAI

whisper-1

OpenAI will retire whisper-1 on 26 February 2027. After that date, API calls to it fail. The recommended replacement is gpt-transcribe.

ProviderOpenAI
StatusRetiring (as of 11 Nov 2026)
Shutdown26 February 2027
Replacementgpt-transcribe
Model typeAudio
SourceOpenAI deprecations page

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Run this in your repository. No install and no API key; it lists every OpenAI, Anthropic and Google model ID it finds, with its retirement date and replacement:

npx -y @aidriftline/driftline .

Or look for this ID only: grep -rn "whisper-1" . (misses aliases, Bedrock and Vertex names, and IDs split across lines).

To be warned automatically before the next retirement, add the free Driftline GitHub Action. It annotates the exact line in pull requests and can fail the build on retired models.

Same date at OpenAI

gpt-4o-mini-transcribe gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 gpt-4o-transcribe gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize

Checked against OpenAI's official page on 11 November 2026. Something wrong? hello@aidriftline.com