sora-2
For sora-2, provider is Microsoft Azure / Foundry; lifecycle status is Preview; shutdown / retirement date is 2026-07-15; recommended replacement is sora-2 (2025-12-08); platform / deployment scope is Azure / Microsoft Foundry, recorded from its source on 2026-08-12.
- Provider
- Microsoft Azure / Foundry
- Model ID / API name
- sora-2 verified
- Human-readable model name
- sora-2 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Preview verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 2026-07-15 verified
- Recommended replacement
- sora-2 (2025-12-08) verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- Azure / Microsoft Foundry our reading
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
sora-2 | 2025-10-06 | Preview | 2026-07-15 | sora-2 (2025-12-08) |
— learn.microsoft.com, retrieved 2026-08-12
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.
Shutdown / retirement date
learn.microsoft.com says shutdown / retirement date is 2026-07-15, as of 2026-08-12.
sora-2 | 2025-10-06 | Preview | 2026-07-15 | sora-2 (2025-12-08) |
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
learn.microsoft.com says shutdown / retirement date is 2026-09-15, as of 2026-08-12.
sora-2 | 2025-10-06 | Preview | 2026-07-15 | sora-2 (2025-12-08) | sora-2 | 2025-12-08 | Preview | 2026-09-15 |
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
Source
- learn.microsoft.comhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule