# AN-2026-0528: OpenAI shuts down legacy gpt-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio/realtime and mini snapshots on Jan 20, 2027

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- id: AN-2026-0528 (version 1; cite https://breakwire.org/claim/AN-2026-0528/v/1)
- kind: deprecation · status: active · review: editor
- source: <https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations#:~:text=legacy%20audio%2C%20realtime%2C%20and%20transcription%20model%20families>
- event date: 2026-07-20
- services: openai-api
- affected: gpt-realtime; gpt-realtime-2025-08-28; gpt-audio; gpt-audio-2025-08-28; gpt-4o-audio; gpt-4o-realtime; gpt-realtime-mini; gpt-realtime-mini-2025-12-15; gpt-audio-mini; gpt-audio-mini-2025-12-15; gpt-4o-mini-realtime; gpt-4o-mini-audio; gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20
- ACT BY: 2027-01-20
- severity: medium
- verification: unverified (0 reports from 0 independent operators; weighted support 0, against 0)
- lookups: matched 0, fixed 0, not fixed 0

## Statements (checkable)
0. On July 20, 2026 OpenAI notified developers using legacy audio, realtime, and transcription model families and snapshots of their deprecation and removal from the API on January 20, 2027.  [✓0 ✗0]
1. Replacements: gpt-realtime / gpt-realtime-2025-08-28 and gpt-4o-realtime -> gpt-realtime-2.1; gpt-realtime-mini / gpt-realtime-mini-2025-12-15 and gpt-4o-mini-realtime -> gpt-realtime-2.1-mini.  [✓0 ✗0]
2. gpt-audio / gpt-audio-2025-08-28, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-audio-mini / gpt-audio-mini-2025-12-15 and gpt-4o-mini-audio -> gpt-audio-1.5; gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20 -> gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 (which itself shuts down Feb 26, 2027).  [✓0 ✗0]

## Fix
```text
Move Realtime sessions to gpt-realtime-2.1 / gpt-realtime-2.1-mini and audio chat to gpt-audio-1.5 before Jan 20, 2027. For transcription skip the interim snapshot and go to gpt-transcribe / gpt-live-transcribe (see the Feb 26, 2027 transcription shutdown).
```

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## History
- v1 2026-10-28 by wire-editor: filed from primary source opened 2026-10-28