gpt-4o-transcribe — GA or Deprecated — shutdown 2026-10-15 or Feb 26, 2027 — sources disagree
For gpt-4o-transcribe, provider is Microsoft Azure / Foundry; lifecycle status is disputed: GA per learn.microsoft.com, Deprecated per developers.openai.com; shutdown / retirement date is disputed: 2026-10-15 per learn.microsoft.com, Feb 26, 2027 per developers.openai.com; platform / deployment scope is Azure / Microsoft Foundry, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28; source re-checked 2026-10-13.
- Provider
- Microsoft Azure / Foundry our reading
- OpenAI per developers.openai.com
- Model ID / API name
- gpt-4o-transcribe verified
- Human-readable model name
- gpt-4o-transcribe verified
- Lifecycle status
- GA sources disagree
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 2026-10-15 sources disagree
- Platform / deployment scope
- Azure / Microsoft Foundry our reading
- Deprecation announced
- August 26, 2026 per developers.openai.com
- Recommended replacement
- gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe per developers.openai.com
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
| gpt-4o-transcribe | 2025-03-20 | GA | 2026-10-15 | — |
— learn.microsoft.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Where each value comes from
The value above is stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states it is shown here too.
Shutdown / retirement date
| Model | Version | Lifecycle | Retirement date | Replacement | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | codex-mini | 2025-05-16 | Deprecated | 2026-11-15 | — | | gpt-4.1 | 2025-04-14 | Deprecated | 2027-04-14 | — | | gpt-4.1-mini | 2025-04-14 | Deprecated | 2027-04-14 | — | | gpt-4.1-nano | 2025-04-14 | Deprecated | 2027-04-14 | — | | gpt-4o | 2024-05-13 | Deprecated | 2026-12-09 | gpt-5.6-sol | | gpt-4o | 2024-08-06 | Deprecated | 2027-04-14 | gpt-5.1 | | gpt-4o | 2024-11-20 | Legacy | 2027-04-14 | gpt-5.1 | | gpt-4o-mini | 2024-07-18 | Deprecated | 2027-04-14 | — | | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | 2025-03-20 | GA | 2026-10-15 | — | | gpt-4o-mini-transcribe | 2025-12-15 | GA | 2027-06-15 | — | | gpt-4o-mini-tts | 2025-03-20 | Preview | 2026-10-15 | — | | gpt-4o-mini-tts | 2025-12-15 | GA | 2027-06-15 | — | | gpt-4o-transcribe | 2025-03-20 | GA | 2026-10-15 | — |
— all from learn.microsoft.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Sources disagree
More than one authority states this, and they do not state the same thing. Both are reproduced with the source each came from — deciding between them is yours, not ours.
Lifecycle status
learn.microsoft.com says lifecycle status is GA, as of 2026-08-28.
| gpt-4o-transcribe | 2025-03-20 | GA | 2026-10-15 | — |
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
developers.openai.com says lifecycle status is Deprecated, as of 2026-09-01.
| Feb 26, 2027 | `gpt-4o-transcribe` | `gpt-live-transcribe` or `gpt-transcribe` |
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations.md
Shutdown / retirement date
learn.microsoft.com says shutdown / retirement date is 2026-10-15, as of 2026-08-28.
| gpt-4o-transcribe | 2025-03-20 | GA | 2026-10-15 | — |
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
developers.openai.com says shutdown / retirement date is Feb 26, 2027, as of 2026-09-01.
| Feb 26, 2027 | `gpt-4o-transcribe` | `gpt-live-transcribe` or `gpt-transcribe` |
Sources
- learn.microsoft.comhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
- developers.openai.comhttps://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations.md
- platform.openai.comhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations