This date has passed. If it just broke for you, what to do is below.
criticalShutdown
dall-e-2 is removed from the API
- Announced
- 14 Nov 2025
- Effective
- passed 12 May 2026
- Source
- the vendor’s own page · last checked 23 Sept 2026
What breaks
Image generation calls naming this model return an error. Anything rendering the result will show an empty image rather than fail loudly.
What to do
Move to gpt-image-2. Not to gpt-image-1 or gpt-image-1-mini: OpenAI shuts both down on 1 December 2026 and names gpt-image-2 as their replacement.
Advice confirmed 23 Sept 2026
What the vendor said
On 14 November 2025 OpenAI notified developers using dall-e-2 of its deprecation and removal from the API.