Azure AI Foundry
o3-mini model retirement
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On November 19, 2026, model o3-mini will be retired. Calls targeting model o3-mini will fail after that day. The deprecation applies to version 2025-01-31.
What to use instead of o3-mini
Move to gpt-5.6-terra, which is recommended by Microsoft.
In Azure AI Foundry's words
Model: o3-mini; Version: 2025-01-31; Lifecycle: Deprecated; Retirement date: 2026-11-19; Replacement: gpt-5.6-terra
Facts
- API
- Azure AI Foundry
*.services.ai.azure.com - Model
o3-mini- Released
- December 20, 2024 (models.dev)
- Kind
- Model retirement
- Takes effect
- November 19, 2026
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- Deprecations page
- Last updated
- Verified
- , against Azure AI Foundry's own pages
Questions
When does o3-mini shut down?
Calls to the model o3-mini on Azure AI Foundry stop working on November 19, 2026.
What happens to calls after November 19, 2026?
They fail from that day.
When was o3-mini released?
o3-mini was released on December 20, 2024, according to models.dev.
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.
o3-mini on other APIs 2
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OpenAI
o3-miniModel retirement Stopped working -
No date
Azure OpenAI
o3-miniModel retirement Deprecated, no date
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Is your code calling this?
Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix before November 19, 2026.