How long does an AI model stay listed?
Daily OpenRouter catalog observation plus hand-checked provider shutdown dates. See what disappeared, what is scheduled to retire, and which route might replace a model on similar context limits.
OpenRouter routes in today's snapshot.
Seen before, absent now — not the same as a provider retirement.
Observation window is 10 day(s); churn rate needs more history before it is meaningful.
All notices checked within the staleness window.
Is your model going away?
Hand-verified provider shutdown notices matched to live OpenRouter routes where possible. Replacement suggestions come from today's 28-model value desk with similar context windows.
| Model | Provider | Shutdown | Context | Suggested replacement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 API snapshotsdall-e-3 | OpenAI | Passed 2026-05-12 | — | — | Official notice |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash familygemini-2.0-flash | Passed 2026-06-01 | — | — | Official notice | |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTSgemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts | Passed 2026-06-12 | — | — | Official notice | |
| Imagen 4.0 generate preview routesimagen-4.0-generate | Passed 2026-08-17 | — | — | Official notice | |
| GPT-4o transcription routesgpt-4o-transcribe | OpenAI | 2027-02-26 (156 days) | — | — | Official notice |
| Azure OpenAI legacy GPT-3.5 deploymentsgpt-35 | Microsoft Azure | Not announced | — | — | Official notice |
| Bedrock Anthropic Claude 3 routesanthropic.claude-3 | Amazon Bedrock | Not announced | — | — | Official notice |
| Claude 3 Opus dated snapshotsclaude-3-opus | Anthropic | Not announced | — | — | Official notice |
Routes that left OpenRouter
Sorted by last seen date. Last price uses the same 3:1 blended OpenRouter list price as the API costs desk.
| Model | Provider | Last seen | Days observed | Last blended $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 4anthropic/claude-opus-4 | Anthropic | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $30 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (batch)deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731:batch | Deepseek | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $0.165 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp:batch | Deepseek | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $0.165 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (batch)deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813:batch | Deepseek | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $0.99 |
| Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2 | Kwaipilot | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $0.525 |
| Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B (batch)meta/muse-glimmer-30b:batch | Meta | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $0.3187 |
| MiniMax: MiniMax M3 (batch)minimax/minimax-m3:batch | Minimax | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $0.525 |
| OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b (batch)openai/gpt-oss-120b:batch | Openai | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $0.2625 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B (batch)qwen/qwen3.5-9b:batch | Qwen | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $0.19 |
| Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B (batch)qwen/qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b:batch | Qwen | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $3 |
| Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)thinkingmachines/inkling:batch | Thinkingmachines | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $1.7625 |
| Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (batch)z-ai/glm-5.2:batch | Z Ai | 2026-09-22 | 10 | $1.075 |
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (free)deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731:free | Deepseek | 2026-09-20 | 3 | $0 |
| Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512mistralai/mistral-large-2512 | Mistralai | 2026-09-18 | 6 | $0.75 |
| Union Alphastealth/union-alpha | Stealth | 2026-09-18 | 3 | $0 |
| Google: Gemma 4 31B (batch)google/gemma-4-31b-it:batch | 2026-09-16 | 4 | $0.535 | |
| Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)thinkingmachines/inkling-small:batch | Thinkingmachines | 2026-09-16 | 4 | $0.675 |
| Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06google/gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06 | 2026-09-15 | 3 | $3.4375 | |
| OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo Previewopenai/gpt-4-turbo-preview | Openai | 2026-09-15 | 3 | $15 |
Every model ID seen in the public OpenRouter catalog is recorded once and never deleted. Disappearance means the route was not listed on the day we checked; it is not proof the provider retired the model. providerCreated comes from OpenRouter metadata, not from NordPeek observation. Hand-verified shutdown and deprecation dates from official provider lifecycle pages. The daily workflow never rewrites this file. Anything older than 45 days is flagged for re-check.