# sora-2-pro — Deprecated — shutdown 2026-09-24

For sora-2-pro, provider is OpenAI; lifecycle status is Deprecated; deprecation announced is March 24th, 2026; shutdown / retirement date is 2026-09-24, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28.

- **Provider:** OpenAI _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** sora-2-pro _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** Deprecated
- **Deprecation announced:** March 24th, 2026 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 2026-09-24 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> | 2026-09-24    | `sora-2-pro`            | ---                     |

## 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

> On March 24th, 2026, we notified developers using the Videos API and Sora 2 video generation model aliases and snapshots of their deprecation and removal from the API on September 24, 2026.

## Source

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

Last verified: 2026-08-28. Review by: 2026-09-27.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).