GPT Image 2.6 Flare
Image generation
gpt-image-2.6-flare
$5 text in, $30 image out per 1M tokens
Sora 2
Retired on OpenAI API; kept for history. Azure Foundry listing may still work.
Model idsora-2
Price$0.10 per second
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
19newer video generation models since its release
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash5 Nov 2026
- FLUX 3 Max19 Oct 2026
- Kling 4.0 (and 4.0 Flash)15 Oct 2026
- Tavus Griffin (Human Interaction Model)1 Oct 2026
- HeyGen Video 130 Sep 2026
The 5 newest are listed. All video generation models
- Weights
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.
How to call it
2 ways to use Sora 2, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | sora-2 |
https://api.openai.com/v1/videos |
developers.openai.com |
| Azure OpenAI (Microsoft Foundry) | sora-2 |
learn.microsoft.com |
Pricing
| Per second | $0.10 |
|---|
As published: “per second of video (720x1280 / 1280x720), before shutdown”.
Source: developers.openai.com, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text and images
- Output
- Video and audio
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Released
- 6 October 2025
- Status
- Retired
- Type
- Video generation
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Synchronized audio
Generates video with audio from text or image prompts.
Shut down without replacement
Found after launch
Sora 2 models and Videos API shut down Sep 24 2026 with no one-to-one replacement.
Notes
OpenAI API shut down 2026-09-24 (sora-2, sora-2-pro, snapshots sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08). Azure Foundry still listed sora-2 (preview) as of 2026-09-23. Release date = first API snapshot. Resellers followed: ElevenLabs removed Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro from its Image & Video API on 2026-09-23 (‘OpenAI is discontinuing the Sora API on September 24, 2026’), and the same changelog lists ByteDance retiring Seedance 1.5 Pro on 2026-11-11.
Sources:
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/sora-2
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/foundry-models/concepts/models-sold-directly-by-azure
- ElevenLabs changelog 2026-09-23: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/changelog
- Models overview: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models