Sora
Plan migration from Sora’s remaining API before its announced September 24, 2026 retirement. The web and app experience has already closed.
The verdict on Sora: Existing Sora API users preparing a migration before the announced retirement date Treat Sora as a migration decision, not a new-tool recommendation. Pricing: API wind-down: existing metered API access is scheduled to end September 24, 2026. The web and app experience retired April 26; this is not an available consumer subscription offer..
Best For
Existing Sora API users preparing a migration before the announced retirement date
Standout Feature
Separate retirement dates for the former web/app product and the remaining API
TL;DR
Do not start a new production dependency on Sora while its API retirement is imminent; compare currently available alternatives.
Alternatives
Overview
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Sora’s web and app experience was retired on April 26, 2026. Its API follows a separate timetable: OpenAI announced retirement of the Sora 2 API on September 24, 2026. As of this September 8 review, existing API users should plan their migration before that date rather than build a new dependency on the service. Historical app features and subscription access should not be treated as current API capabilities or entitlements.
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- • Best-in-class physical realism
- • Longest consistent output of any major model
- • No separate account needed if you have ChatGPT Plus
- • Web/app experience already retired (April 26, 2026)
- • The Sora 2 API is separately scheduled to shut down September 24, 2026
- • Not a sound foundation for new production work given the announced API sunset
Key Features
- Former text- and image-guided video service
- Web/app experience retired April 26, 2026
- Separate API retirement announced for September 24, 2026
Trust & Data
Verified 2026-09
- Training on your data
- Opt-out availableOpenAI's privacy policy explicitly names Sora as a covered service; consumer accounts are governed by the main policy's model-improvement opt-out controls, while OpenAI states business-tier products are not trained on customer data by default. sora.com/privacy itself returned a server error, so this entry relies on OpenAI's main privacy policy, which names Sora explicitly, rather than a Sora-specific policy page.
- Compliance
- SOC 2, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, CCPA, CSA STAR, GDPR, TX-RAMP, FedRAMP 20x, PCI DSS v4.0.1
- Retention
- Consumer data is retained for as long as needed to provide the services, with duration depending on data type and user settings; enterprise customers have user-controlled retention periods.
- Export
- Partial export
Sources: openai.com/privacy policy, openai.com/enterprise privacy, trust.openai.com
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Our Take
The web and app experience has already retired, while the API has a separately announced September 24, 2026 end date. Existing users should preserve their work and move required workflows to a supported alternative. Compare current options such as Google Veo or Runway against the actual task and operating cost; no alternative’s future availability is guaranteed.