Seven weeks left for Sora 2: OpenAI's video API shuts down on 24 September, with no successor named

OpenAI's deprecation table now puts a hard date on the most talked-about video model of 2025: sora-2, sora-2-pro and every dated snapshot (sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06) stop working on 24 September 2026. The Videos API endpoint that served them is being retired at the same time. The withdrawal was announced on 24 March 2026, which leaves roughly seven weeks for anything still generating video through OpenAI. The detail worth noticing is the empty column. OpenAI's deprecation entries normally point developers at a replacement model; the Sora rows list none, and no successor video model has been announced. That makes this a rare case of a major lab leaving a product category rather than upgrading within it — a model that was less than a year old, arrived with synchronized dialogue and sound, plausible object physics and consent-controlled cameos of real people, and shipped an app that put AI video in front of a mass audience. Sora 2 keeps its profile in our catalogue. We do not delete profiles when a model is retired, and the entry has been rewritten to state the shutdown date, the API tiers and pricing as they stood, and the fact that industry reports of the consumer app closing in April 2026 go beyond what OpenAI's own documentation confirms.