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OpenAI has ended Sora, and it published both halves of that: the apps are gone, and the API is shut down.
What OpenAI has published about the end
OpenAI's help center puts both dates in one sentence: the Sora web and app experiences were discontinued on April 26, 2026, and the Sora API was discontinued on September 24, 2026. The developer documentation confirms that the shutdown happened: the video generation guide now opens with "The Sora 2 models and Videos API were shut down on September 24, 2026 and are no longer available. No one-to-one replacement API is available. This guide is retained for historical reference." Opening openai.com/sora/ today redirects to the help center article rather than to a product page.
Both dates are in the ledger at the foot of this page, with the document each came from and the day we opened it. The help center article still used future phrasing when we last opened it; the video generation guide is the document that says the shutdown happened.
The API rate it carried, and why it is historical
The API's last published rate was $0.10 per second (720p, sora-2), from OpenAI's developer pricing table, read on August 25, 2026. It is not a price anyone can pay today: the API is shut down, and the pricing page's video table no longer carries the rate. We keep it in the page body rather than under the entry price heading, because that heading would promise a price a new customer could pay for a product that no longer exists. The rate is history, not a price.
Why this page is still here, and why it is out of the ranking
The question people arrive with is whether Sora is still available. Deleting this profile would answer that with a 404, which tells them nothing and breaks every link anyone saved. So the page stays, the dates sit at the top of it, and the two documents those dates came from are linked in the ledger at the foot of the page.
It is out of our AI video ranking for a separate reason. That page sorts on what it costs to find out whether a tool fits your work. Nobody can find that out about a withdrawn product, and placing it low would score an absence as though it were a measurement, which is the one move that ranking refuses to make. The AI video hub explains why withdrawal and absence are different questions for its category too.
What this profile said before, and why
This page went up on July 28, 2026, three months after the apps closed, and its first line said Sora reaches most people through the consumer app. Nothing had been read to support that. The same page also said the consumer pages did not serve us a readable document, and that part was accurate about our fetch.
Those two sat together for four weeks. The page had an answer the whole time and our fetcher could not read it, so the absence protected the ledger and did nothing at all for the sentence above it. Not publishing a free tier figure we had not read is the policy working. A line written from expectation is what nothing here was checking.