"GPT-4o, the model that's become a favorite for many people because of its warm and friendly conversational tone, will be retired on Feb. 13, OpenAI announced Thursday. That means it'll no longer be accessible to paid users via the model selector menu in ChatGPT, though it'll still be available through OpenAI's API for the foreseeable future. ChatGPT's free users -- which comprise around 90% of OpenAI's userbase -- have not had access to 4o since OpenAI debuted GPT-5 in August."
"GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, OpenAI o4-mini, and GPT-5 Instant and Thinking will also be discontinued starting Feb. 13. But OpenAI is treading extra carefully in the case of 4o, after it faced user blowback when the model was briefly removed after the release of GPT-5. "We know that losing access to GPT‑4o will feel frustrating for some users, and we didn't make this decision lightly," the company wrote in its announcement."
GPT-4o will be retired on Feb. 13 and removed from ChatGPT's model selector for paid users while remaining available via OpenAI's API. Free ChatGPT users have lacked access to 4o since GPT-5's debut. Several other models—including GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, o4-mini, GPT-5 Instant, and GPT-5 Thinking—will also be discontinued on Feb. 13. OpenAI says only about 1% of users still engage with 4o and states that retiring models lets the company focus on improving more widely used models. Plus and Pro subscribers will retain access to preexisting conversations after retirement.
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