This date has passed. If it just broke for you, what to do is below.
criticalShutdown
chatgpt-4o-latest is removed from the API
- Announced
- 18 Nov 2025
- Effective
- passed 17 Feb 2026
- Source
- the vendor’s own page · last checked 23 Sept 2026
What breaks
Any request naming this model returns an error from the removal date. Code that falls back silently on an API error will look fine and answer nothing.
What to do
Move to gpt-5.1-chat-latest.
Advice confirmed 23 Sept 2026
What the vendor said
On 18 November 2025 OpenAI notified developers using the chatgpt-4o-latest model snapshot of its deprecation and removal from the API.