Okapi Okapi

Azure AI Foundry gpt-5.3-chat model retirement

Stopped workingSubscribe to Azure AI FoundryShare

Model gpt-5.3-chat was retired on June 29, 2026. Calls to this model fail since that date. The retirement affected version 2026-03-03 of the model.


What to use instead of gpt-5.3-chat

The replacement is gpt-chat-latest, but it stops working on November 17, 2026. No replacement that holds is named yet.

In Azure AI Foundry's words

Model: gpt-5.3-chat; Version: 2026-03-03; Lifecycle: Retired; Retirement date: 2026-06-29; Replacement: gpt-chat-latest

Azure AI Foundry, Deprecations page

Facts

API
Azure AI Foundry *.services.ai.azure.com
Model
gpt-5.3-chat
Kind
Model retirement
Takes effect
June 29, 2026
Calls after that day
Fail
Source
Deprecations page
Last updated
Verified
, against Azure AI Foundry's own pages

Questions

When does gpt-5.3-chat shut down?

Calls to the model gpt-5.3-chat on Azure AI Foundry stopped working on June 29, 2026.

What happens to calls after June 29, 2026?

They have failed since June 29, 2026.

How do I find the calls this hits in my code?

Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.


More from Azure AI Foundry 10

  1. llama-3.2-11b-vision-instructModel retirement Stopped working
  2. llama-3.2-90b-vision-instructModel retirement Stopped working
  3. meta-llama-3.1-405b-instructModel retirement Stopped working
  4. meta-llama-3.1-8bModel retirement Stopped working
  5. meta-llama-3.1-8b-instructModel retirement Stopped working
  6. gpt-5.1-chatModel retirement Stopped working
  7. deepseek-r1-0528Model retirement Stopped working
  8. deepseek-v3-0324Model retirement Stopped working
  9. deepseek-v3.1Model retirement Stopped working
  10. sora-2Model retirement Stopped working

You fixed this one by hand.

Okapi opens the pull request with the fix before the next breaking change reaches your code.

Add to GitHub

Get notifications

Subscribe to Azure AI Foundry

Hear about each breaking change Azure AI Foundry announces, in your feed reader, calendar or Slack.

1What to follow

Provider
  • Azure AI Foundry

2Where to get it

/breaking-changes/feed.xml

Paste it into Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire or any reader. New changes show up as they're announced.