Model lifespan

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.

Currently listed470

OpenRouter routes in today's snapshot.

No longer listed89

Seen before, absent now — not the same as a provider retirement.

90-day churn16.9%

16.9% of routes listed 90 days ago are no longer on OpenRouter (75/445).

Shutdown notices8

8 notice(s) need re-checking.

Planning

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.

ModelProviderShutdownContextSuggested replacementSource
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 Google Passed 2026-06-01 — — Official notice
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTSgemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts Google Passed 2026-06-12 — — Official notice
Imagen 4.0 generate preview routesimagen-4.0-generate Google Passed 2026-08-17 — — Official notice
GPT-4o transcription routesgpt-4o-transcribe OpenAI 2027-02-26 (107 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
Observed graveyard

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.

ModelProviderLast seenDays observedLast blended $/1M
Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instructqwen/qwen-2.5-7b-instruct Qwen 2026-11-11 60 $0.125
XingChen: Xing4.0 29B A4B (free)xingchen-agi/xing4.0-29b-a4b:free Xingchen Agi 2026-11-11 26 $0
MiniMax: MiniMax M1minimax/minimax-m1 Minimax 2026-11-10 59 $0.9625
Crouton Alphastealth/crouton-alpha Stealth 2026-11-10 7 $0
Inception: Mercury 2inception/mercury-2 Inception 2026-11-08 57 $0.375
Inception: Mercury 2.5inception/mercury-2.5 Inception 2026-11-08 57 $0.0675
Inception: Mercury 3inception/mercury-3 Inception 2026-11-08 19 $0.1625
MiniMax: MiniMax-01minimax/minimax-01 Minimax 2026-11-06 55 $0.425
MiniMax: MiniMax M2minimax/minimax-m2 Minimax 2026-11-06 55 $0.4463
MiniMax: MiniMax M2-herminimax/minimax-m2-her Minimax 2026-11-06 55 $0.525
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1minimax/minimax-m2.1 Minimax 2026-11-06 55 $0.525
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free)nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free Nvidia 2026-11-06 55 $0
ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-Previewgmicloud/ripple-65b-preview Gmicloud 2026-11-05 2 $0.3
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free Thinkingmachines 2026-11-04 53 $0
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)thinkingmachines/inkling:free Thinkingmachines 2026-11-04 53 $0
Nous: Hermes 3 405B Instructnousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b Nousresearch 2026-11-02 51 $1
Nous: Hermes 3 70B Instructnousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-70b Nousresearch 2026-11-02 51 $0.7
Poolside: Laguna S 2.1poolside/laguna-s-2.1 Poolside 2026-11-02 51 $0.1125
Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free)poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free Poolside 2026-11-02 51 $0
Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1poolside/laguna-xs-2.1 Poolside 2026-11-02 51 $0.075
Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 (free)poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free Poolside 2026-11-02 51 $0
Upstage: Solar Pro 3upstage/solar-pro-3 Upstage 2026-10-30 48 $0.2625
OpenAI: GPT-4 Turboopenai/gpt-4-turbo Openai 2026-10-28 46 $15
OpenAI: o1openai/o1 Openai 2026-10-28 46 $26.25
OpenAI: o1-proopenai/o1-pro Openai 2026-10-28 46 $262.5
OpenAI: o3 Miniopenai/o3-mini Openai 2026-10-28 46 $1.925
OpenAI: o3 Mini Highopenai/o3-mini-high Openai 2026-10-28 46 $1.925
OpenAI: o4 Miniopenai/o4-mini Openai 2026-10-28 46 $1.925
OpenAI: o4 Mini Highopenai/o4-mini-high Openai 2026-10-28 46 $1.925
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingqwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking Qwen 2026-10-28 46 $0.4125
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinkingarcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking Arcee Ai 2026-10-27 45 $0.3875
IBM: Granite 4.0 Microibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro Ibm Granite 2026-10-27 45 $0.0408
Mistral: Codestral 2508 (batch)mistralai/codestral-2508:batch Mistralai 2026-10-27 45 $0.225
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 (batch)mistralai/ministral-8b-2512:batch Mistralai 2026-10-27 45 $0.075
Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512 (batch)mistralai/mistral-large-2512:batch Mistralai 2026-10-27 45 $0.375
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch)mistralai/mistral-medium-3.1:batch Mistralai 2026-10-27 45 $0.4
Mistral: Mistral Small 4 (batch)mistralai/mistral-small-2603:batch Mistralai 2026-10-27 45 $0.1312
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free)nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free Nvidia 2026-10-27 45 $0
OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turboopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo Openai 2026-10-25 43 $0.75
OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo Instructopenai/gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct Openai 2026-10-25 43 $1.625
OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo (batch)openai/gpt-3.5-turbo:batch Openai 2026-10-25 43 $0.375
MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash (free)minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash:free Minimax 2026-10-23 5 $0
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (batch)google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite:batch Google 2026-10-22 40 $0.0875
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash (batch)google/gemini-2.5-flash:batch Google 2026-10-21 39 $0.425
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro (batch)google/gemini-2.5-pro:batch Google 2026-10-21 39 $1.7188
DeepSeek: R1deepseek/deepseek-r1 Deepseek 2026-10-19 37 $1.15
WizardLM-2 8x22Bmicrosoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b Microsoft 2026-10-19 37 $0.62
Sao10K: Llama 3.3 Euryale 70Bsao10k/l3.3-euryale-70b Sao10K 2026-10-19 37 $0.675
Pareto 26.10 Previewunbiased/pareto-26.10-preview Unbiased 2026-10-16 15 $1.4
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4anthropic/claude-sonnet-4 Anthropic 2026-10-15 33 $6
Paretounbiased/pareto Unbiased 2026-10-14 27 $3.75
Apodex: Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)apodex/apodex-1.1-mini:free Apodex 2026-10-13 12 $0
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fininclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin Inclusionai 2026-10-13 31 $0.0623
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Santeinclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante Inclusionai 2026-10-13 5 $0.0623
Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728qwen/qwen-plus-2025-07-28 Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $0.39
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22Bqwen/qwen3-235b-a22b Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $0.7963
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507 Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $0.75
Qwen: Qwen3 8Bqwen/qwen3-8b Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $0.2015
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plusqwen/qwen3-coder-plus Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $1.3
Qwen: Qwen3 Maxqwen/qwen3-max Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $1.56
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinkingqwen/qwen3-max-thinking Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $1.56
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinkingqwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $1.3
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instructqwen/qwen3-vl-32b-instruct Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $0.182
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinkingqwen/qwen3-vl-8b-thinking Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $0.66
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Previewqwen/qwen3.6-max-preview Qwen 2026-10-11 29 $2.3107
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-424b-a47b Baidu 2026-10-09 27 $0.6275
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Sante (free)inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:free Inclusionai 2026-10-09 27 $0
Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2.5 Kwaipilot 2026-10-07 25 $1.295
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)qwen/qwen3.8-27b:free Qwen 2026-10-06 19 $0
Space Bunny Alphastealth/space-bunny-alpha Stealth 2026-10-06 13 $0
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70Bdeepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b Deepseek 2026-09-29 17 $0.8
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free)inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:free Inclusionai 2026-09-29 17 $0
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haikuanthropic/claude-3-haiku Anthropic 2026-09-26 14 $0.5
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (free)z-ai/glm-5.2:free Z Ai 2026-09-26 12 $0
Nex AGI: Nex-N2.5-Mini (free)nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:free Nex Agi 2026-09-25 13 $0
Nex AGI: Nex-N2.5-Pro (free)nex-agi/nex-n2.5-pro:free Nex Agi 2026-09-25 13 $0
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:free Inclusionai 2026-09-24 12 $0
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4anthropic/claude-opus-4 Anthropic 2026-09-22 10 $30
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
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
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (free)deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731:free Deepseek 2026-09-20 3 $0
Union Alphastealth/union-alpha Stealth 2026-09-18 3 $0
Google: Gemma 4 31B (batch)google/gemma-4-31b-it:batch Google 2026-09-16 4 $0.535
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06google/gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06 Google 2026-09-15 3 $3.4375
OpenAI: GPT-4 Turbo Previewopenai/gpt-4-turbo-preview Openai 2026-09-15 3 $15
Method

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.

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