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Retired Foundry Models

Microsoft Foundry offers a variety of models for different use cases. The following models are retired and no longer available for use or for new deployments.

Azure OpenAI

Model Version Deprecation date Retirement date Suggested replacement
gpt-5-chat 2025-08-07 June 29, 2026 gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5-chat 2025-10-03 May 13, 2026 gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.1-chat 2025-11-13 June 29, 2026 gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.2-chat 2025-12-11 May 13, 2026 gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.2-chat 2026-02-10 June 29, 2026 gpt-chat-latest
gpt-5.3-chat 2026-03-03 June 29, 2026 gpt-chat-latest
o1-preview July 28, 2025 o1
gpt-4.5-preview July 14, 2025 gpt-4.1 version: 2025-04-14
gpt-4o-realtime-preview 2024-10-01 February 25, 2025 March 26, 2025 gpt-4o-realtime-preview (version 2024-12-17) or gpt-4o-mini-realtime-preview (version 2024-12-17)
gpt-35-turbo 0301 February 13, 2025 gpt-35-turbo (0125)

gpt-4o-mini
gpt-35-turbo 0613 February 13, 2025 gpt-35-turbo (0125)

gpt-4o-mini
gpt-4
gpt-4-32k
0314 June 6, 2025 gpt-4o version: 2024-11-20
gpt-4
gpt-4-32k
0613 June 6, 2025 gpt-4o version: 2024-11-20
gpt-35-turbo-16k 0613 April 30, 2025 gpt-4.1-mini version: 2025-04-14
babbage-002 January 27, 2025 N/A
davinci-002 January 27, 2025 N/A
dall-e-2 January 27, 2025 gpt-image-1
ada July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 N/A
babbage July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 N/A
curie July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 N/A
davinci July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 N/A
text-ada-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-babbage-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-curie-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-davinci-002 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-davinci-003 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
code-cushman-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
code-davinci-002 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-similarity-ada-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-babbage-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-curie-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-davinci-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-ada-doc-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-ada-query-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-babbage-doc-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-babbage-query-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-curie-doc-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-curie-query-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-davinci-doc-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-davinci-query-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
code-search-ada-code-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
code-search-ada-text-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
code-search-babbage-code-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
code-search-babbage-text-001 July 6, 2023 June 14, 2024 text-embedding-3-small

AI21 Labs

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
Jamba Instruct March 1, 2025 N/A
AI21-Jamba-1.5-Large August 1, 2025 N/A
AI21-Jamba-1.5-Mini August 1, 2025 N/A

Bria

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
Bria-2.3-Fast October 31, 2025 N/A

Cohere

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
Command R June 30, 2025 Cohere-command-r-08-2024
Command R+ June 30, 2025 Cohere-command-r-plus-08-2024
Cohere-rerank-v3-english June 30, 2025 Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro, Cohere-rerank-v4.0-fast
Cohere-rerank-v3-multilingual June 30, 2025 Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro, Cohere-rerank-v4.0-fast
Cohere-command-r-08-2024 May 12, 2026 N/A
Cohere-command-r-plus-08-2024 May 12, 2026 N/A
Cohere-rerank-v3.5 May 14, 2026 Cohere-rerank-v4.0-pro, Cohere-rerank-v4.0-fast

Core42

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
jais-30b-chat January 30, 2026 N/A

DeepSeek

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
DeepSeek-V3 August 31, 2025 DeepSeek-V3-0324
DeepSeek-R1-0528 July 13, 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek-V3-0324 July 13, 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Flash
DeepSeek-V3.1 July 13, 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Flash

Gretel

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
Gretel-Navigator-Tabular September 16, 2025 N/A

Meta

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
Llama-2-13b June 30, 2025 Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Llama-2-13b-chat June 30, 2025 Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Llama-2-70b June 30, 2025 Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Llama-2-70b-chat June 30, 2025 Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Llama-2-7b June 30, 2025 Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Llama-2-7b-chat June 30, 2025 Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct June 13, 2026 N/A
Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct June 13, 2026 N/A
Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct June 30, 2025 Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct June 30, 2025 Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct June 13, 2026 N/A
Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct June 30, 2025 Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B June 13, 2026 N/A
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct June 13, 2026 N/A

Microsoft

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
MAI-DS-R1 February 27, 2026 Any DeepSeek model available in the Model catalog
Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct August 30, 2025 Phi-4
Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct August 30, 2025 Phi-4
Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct August 30, 2025 Phi-4-mini-instruct
Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct August 30, 2025 Phi-4-mini-instruct
Phi-3-small-8k-instruct August 30, 2025 Phi-4-mini-instruct
Phi-3-small-128k-instruct August 30, 2025 Phi-4-mini-instruct
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct August 30, 2025 Phi-4-mini-instruct
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct August 30, 2025 Phi-4-mini-instruct
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct August 30, 2025 Phi-4-mini-instruct

Mistral AI

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
Mistral-Nemo January 30, 2026 Mistral-small-2503
Mistral-large-2411 January 30, 2026 Mistral-medium-2505
Mistral-document-ai-2505 July 20, 2026 mistral-document-ai-2512, mistral-ocr-4-0
Mistral-ocr-2503 January 30, 2026 mistral-document-ai-2512, mistral-ocr-4-0
Mistral-small July 31, 2025 Mistral-small-2503
Mistral-large-2407 May 13, 2025 Mistral-medium-2505
Mistral-large April 15, 2025 Mistral-medium-2505

Moonshot AI

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
Kimi-k2-thinking March 29, 2026 Kimi-K2.5

xAI

Model Retirement date Suggested replacement
grok-3 May 1, 2026 grok-4
grok-3-mini May 1, 2026 grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
grok-4-fast-non-reasoning May 1, 2026 grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
grok-4-fast-reasoning May 1, 2026 grok-4-1-fast-reasoning