Is whisper deprecated?

Q: Is whisper deprecated?

Not yet, but retirement is scheduled. Sunset scheduled for 2026-12-15, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today.

RETIRING IN 44 DAYS

Sunset scheduled for 2026-12-15, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today.

state=dying sunset=2026-12-15 days_remaining=44 severity=high sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-11-01 05:11Z

openai/whisper

Vendor: openai. Tracked by 1 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	azure/whisper	—	—	—	—	2026-12-15

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
low	added	new model azure/whisper	2026-10-06
high	deprecated	azure/whisper: retires 2026-12-15 (in 70 days)	2026-10-06
low	added	new model azure_ai/whisper	2026-09-10
medium	deprecated	azure_ai/whisper: retires 2026-12-15 (in 96 days)	2026-09-10
low	added	new model cloudflare/@cf/openai/whisper	2026-09-03