OpenAI shuts down Sora Videos API and all sora-2* aliases

OpenAI’s Videos API and every listed Sora 2 model alias and snapshot shut down on 2026-09-24. The company’s deprecations table lists no recommended replacement for any of them.

This post draws on OpenAI’s API docs and Help Center. Leftover create/poll guide text is legacy: it describes a surface that is gone today.

What ended today

On March 24, 2026, OpenAI told developers the Videos API and Sora 2 video-generation aliases/snapshots would be deprecated and removed on September 24, 2026 (deprecations, section “2026-03-24: Sora 2 video generation models and Videos API”).

Shutdown-date rows for 2026-09-24, each with replacement —:

• Videos API
• sora-2
• sora-2-pro
• sora-2-2025-10-06
• sora-2-2025-12-08
• sora-2-pro-2025-10-06

The video-generation guide banner matches that set and shutdown date.

Consumer Sora already gone

Sora web and app experiences discontinued on April 26, 2026. The Sora API discontinuation lands today, September 24, 2026 (Help Center).

For content still in a Sora library, OpenAI’s path is sora.chatgpt.com/sunset → Export (email when ready). OpenAI recommends exporting ASAP; after discontinuation and any final export window, associated Sora data may be permanently deleted.

No first-party migration target

This is not an OpenAI “next Sora” handoff. The official table’s — cells mean there is no listed successor model or Videos API drop-in. Pipelines still calling Videos API / sora-2* need a third-party stack or a different product surface . Compare options yourself; this post does not endorse competitors.

Who should care

Hard cutoff for any product, agency, or pipeline on Videos API / sora-2*. Consumer Sora ended in April; today’s event closes the developer generation/retrieval surface with no OpenAI replacement on the deprecations page. Export remaining library content, then migrate off the dead API ids.