Self-serve fine-tuning retirement date and replacement
OpenAI API · Product · retires Jan 6, 2027 (in 104 days)
Dates
Checked Sep 25, 2026 on OpenAI's page| Retires | Jan 6, 2027 (in 104 days) |
|---|---|
| Announced | May 7, 2026 |
| Replacement | None named |
| Notice | Active existing customers will no longer be able to create new fine-tuning jobs on this date. Inference on fine-tuned models will be disabled only when the underlying base model is deprecated. |
| Source | developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations |
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