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criticalShutdown
gpt-4o-realtime-preview is removed from the API
- Announced
- 15 Sept 2025
- Effective
- passed 7 May 2026
- Source
- the vendor’s own page · last checked 23 Sept 2026
What breaks
Realtime sessions naming this model fail to open. Live audio and voice features stop connecting rather than degrading.
What to do
Move to gpt-realtime-1.5.
Advice confirmed 23 Sept 2026
What the vendor said
On 15 September 2025 OpenAI notified developers using gpt-4o-realtime-preview models of their deprecation and removal from the API.