# gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20 — Deprecated — shutdown Jan 6, 2027

For gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20, provider is OpenAI; lifecycle status is Deprecated; deprecation announced is 2026-10-01; shutdown / retirement date is Jan 6, 2027; recommended replacement is gpt-realtime-2.1-mini, recorded from its source on 2026-10-05; source re-checked 2026-10-12.

- **Provider:** OpenAI _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** Deprecated
- **Deprecation announced:** 2026-10-01 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** Jan 6, 2027 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** gpt-realtime-2.1-mini _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> | Jan 6, 2027 | `gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20` | `gpt-realtime-2.1-mini` |

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Deprecation announced

> 2026-10-01: Text-to-speech models

## Source

- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations.md

Last verified: 2026-10-12. Review by: 2026-11-11.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).