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OpenAI shuts down the Sora 2 video models and the Videos API, with no replacement
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OpenAI has shut down the Sora 2 video models and the Videos API: since 24 September 2026 they are no longer available. OpenAI's own guide adds that no one-to-one replacement API is available. If an application of yours makes video through OpenAI's API, it stopped working that day, and the fix is not a model name you swap.
What changed
The notice is six months old. On 24 March 2026, OpenAI told developers using the Videos API and the Sora 2 models that both would be removed from the API on 24 September 2026. The deprecations page lists what went: the Videos API itself,sora-2, sora-2-pro, and three dated snapshots of them — every one with the shutdown date 2026-09-24, and none with a recommended replacement.
The guide that taught the Videos API still exists, but it opens with the shutdown and says it is kept only for historical reference.
What it was before
The Videos API let developers create, extend, edit and manage videos from code. As recently as March 2026, OpenAI expanded it with reusable character references, generations up to 20 seconds, 1080p output forsora-2-pro, video extensions, and Batch API support for POST /v1/videos. Those 1080p generations were billed at $0.70 per second.
What it means for you
Search your code for the Videos API and for the model names sora-2 and sora-2-pro, including the dated snapshots. Any call to them fails now: they are no longer available. Batch jobs are part of it too — the March expansion putPOST /v1/videoson the Batch API , so a queue of video renders submitted that way has nowhere left to run.
There is nothing to switch to inside the same API. If video generation is a feature of your product, it needs a decision rather than an edit: take the feature out, or move it to another provider and rebuild it there. Whatever you choose, change the part of your interface that promises video now, so your users meet a clear message instead of a failed request.
If you were budgeting for video at the 1080p rate of $0.70 per second , that line of your costs is gone with the service — and so is any cost estimate built on it.
Nothing else on OpenAI's API moved with this: text, image and audio models are not part of the notice, which names only the Videos API and the Sora 2 models.
The source
OpenAI's deprecations page, the entry dated 2026-03-24, and the notice at the top of its video generation guide.