AI API changes: August 2026
30 changes shipped without an announcement, and 16 that came with a published date. Compiled automatically from provider catalogs and endpoints; every figure below links to the model it came from.
2
capacity cuts
context or output shrank
3
price changes
same call, different bill
0
capabilities lost
16
announced
deprecations with a date
Unannounced, biggest first
| Impact | Provider | What changed | Detected |
|---|---|---|---|
| cost | deepseek | 6.43x price · deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731: cache_read_price_per_mtok $0.0028/Mtok to $0.02/Mtok | 2026-08-01 |
| truncation | deepseek | -83% max out · deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731: max_output_tokens cut 384,000 to 65,536 inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| cost | nvidia | 2.00x price · nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b: cache_read_price_per_mtok $0.10/Mtok to $0.20/Mtok | 2026-08-01 |
| cost | nvidia | 1.64x price · nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b: output_price_per_mtok $2.20/Mtok to $3.60/Mtok | 2026-08-01 |
| truncation | z-ai | -2% max out · z-ai/glm-5.2: max_output_tokens cut 131,072 to 128,000 | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | claude-instant-1.0 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | claude-instant-1.2 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | claude-1.0 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | claude-instant-1.1 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | gpt-4o version 2024-05-13 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | claude-1.1 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | claude-1.2 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | claude-1.3 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs, litellm still list it] claude-sonnet-4-20250514 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs, litellm still list it] claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | [one catalog only — docs, litellm, openrouter still list it] gpt-4o-mini is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | [one catalog only — docs, litellm, openrouter still list it] o4-mini is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs, litellm still list it] claude-3-sonnet-20240229 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs still list it] claude-2.1 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | [one catalog only — docs, litellm, openrouter still list it] gpt-4o is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs, litellm still list it] claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs, litellm still list it] claude-3-opus-20240229 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | [one catalog only — docs, litellm, openrouter still list it] gpt-4.1-nano is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | [one catalog only — docs, litellm, openrouter still list it] gpt-4.1 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs, litellm still list it] claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs, litellm still list it] claude-3-haiku-20240307 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | [one catalog only — docs, litellm, openrouter still list it] gpt-4.1-mini is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs, litellm still list it] claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs still list it] claude-2.0 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | [one catalog only — docs, litellm still list it] claude-opus-4-20250514 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail inferred | 2026-08-01 |
Announced this period
| Impact | Provider | What changed | Detected |
|---|---|---|---|
| availability | openai | computer-use-preview-2025-03-11: retires 2026-07-23 (9 days ago) +17 aliases inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | openai | gpt-5.2-chat-latest: retires 2026-08-10 (in 9 days) +3 aliases | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | anthropic | claude-opus-4-1-20250805: retires 2026-08-05 (in 4 days) inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | openai | ft-babbage-002: retires 2026-10-23 (in 83 days) +27 aliases inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | openai | babbage-002: retires 2026-09-28 (in 58 days) +3 aliases inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | openai | sora-2-2025-10-06: retires 2026-09-24 (in 54 days) +4 aliases inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | bedrock_converse | eu.anthropic.claude-haiku-4-5-20251001-v1:0: retires 2026-10-15 (in 75 days) | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | openai | gpt-5-2025-08-07: retires 2026-12-11 (in 132 days) +5 aliases inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | openai | chatgpt-image-latest: retires 2026-12-01 (in 122 days) +2 aliases inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | gpt-4o-mini: retires 2027-10-01 (in 426 days) +1 alias inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | openai | v1/prompts: retires 2026-11-30 (in 121 days) inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | openai | gpt-4o-audio: retires 2027-01-20 (in 172 days) +8 aliases inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | gpt-4.1-mini: retires 2027-10-14 (in 439 days) +1 alias inferred | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | azure | azure/gpt-4.1-2025-04-14: retires 2026-11-04 (in 95 days) +5 aliases | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | z-ai | z-ai/glm-4.5: retires 2026-12-31 (in 152 days) | 2026-08-01 |
| availability | z-ai | z-ai/glm-5-turbo: retires 2098-12-31 (in 26450 days) +1 alias | 2026-08-01 |
Who changed the most
| Provider | Unannounced changes |
|---|---|
| anthropic | 18 |
| azure | 7 |
| deepseek | 2 |
| nvidia | 2 |
| z-ai | 1 |