migration_deadline
kingy:change-event:ksr-openai-assistants-api-2026-08-26
announcedAt: 2025-08-26T00:00:00.000Z · effectiveAt: 2025-08-26T00:00:00.000Z · observedAt: 2025-08-26T00:00:00.000Z · publishedAt: 2026-07-26T20:47:40.000Z
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api
OpenAI API
An exact-identity Distribution Dossier: what it is, what changed, where it is available, how attention occurred, what the evidence proves, and what remains unknown.
verified 1 open holds · outcome unknown/O0
Evidence completeness
Dimension states are transparent evidence conditions, not a synthetic product score.
identityverified
{"state":"verified","basis":"exact_product_facts_stable_id_and_canonical_profile_url"}
claimsverified
{"state":"verified","count":17}
sourceLineageverified
{"state":"verified","sourceCount":25,"freshOfficialSnapshotCount":0}
changeClocksverified
{"state":"verified","knownClockCount":12}
routespartial
{"state":"partial","routeCount":1,"routeTypes":["api"]}
attentionverified
{"state":"verified","occurrenceCount":7}
commercialReadinessverified
{"state":"verified"}
freshnesspartial
{"state":"partial","successfulSourceCount":2,"sourceFailureCount":1}
outcomesunknown
{"state":"unknown","outcomeStrength":"O0","interpretation":"Unknown is not zero and is not failure."}
What changed
retirement
kingy:change-event:ksr-openai-gpt-5-2-5-3-chat-2026-08-10
announcedAt: 2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z · effectiveAt: 2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z · observedAt: 2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z · publishedAt: 2026-08-01T15:39:57.000Z
retirement
kingy:change-event:ksr-openai-gpt-image-2026-12-01
announcedAt: 2026-06-02T00:00:00.000Z · effectiveAt: 2026-06-02T00:00:00.000Z · observedAt: 2026-06-02T00:00:00.000Z · publishedAt: 2026-07-26T20:47:39.000Z
Distribution routes
The retained Product Facts claim supports API availability state only; route region, plan, version, and effective time remain unknown.
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:6:access-api-available
Attention occurrences
https://kingy.ai/ai-tools/openai-api/
Sequence is not causality; no audience or outcome claim is made.
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/gpt-realtime-2-2026-05-07-model-release/
Sequence is not causality; no audience or outcome claim is made.
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/gpt-4-1-2025-04-14-model-release/
Sequence is not causality; no audience or outcome claim is made.
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/gpt-4-5-2025-02-27-model-release/
Sequence is not causality; no audience or outcome claim is made.
Sequence is not causality; no audience or outcome claim is made.
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/openai-assistants-api-reaches-its-migration-deadline-august-26/
Sequence is not causality; no audience or outcome claim is made.
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/older-openai-gpt-image-models-will-leave-the-api-december-1/
Sequence is not causality; no audience or outcome claim is made.
Claims and evidence
- identity.name
OpenAI API
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:1:identity-name
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:official:1
Projected from retained public Product Facts evidence; no new live vendor verification was performed.
- identity.company
OpenAI
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:2:identity-company
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:official:1
Projected from retained public Product Facts evidence; no new live vendor verification was performed.
- product.what_it_does
The OpenAI API gives developers programmatic access to OpenAI models and tools for text generation, reasoning, coding, vision, audio, image generation, and agentic workflows.
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:3:product-what-it-does
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:official:1
Projected from retained public Product Facts evidence; no new live vendor verification was performed.
- commercial.pricing
Usage is billed by model and feature; current rates are listed on OpenAI's official API pricing page.
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:4:commercial-pricing
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:official:1
Projected from retained public Product Facts evidence; no new live vendor verification was performed.
- commercial.free_plan
no
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:5:commercial-free-plan
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:official:1
Projected from retained public Product Facts evidence; no new live vendor verification was performed.
- access.api_available
yes
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:6:access-api-available
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:official:1
Projected from retained public Product Facts evidence; no new live vendor verification was performed.
- licensing.open_source_or_open_weight
no
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:7:licensing-open-source-or-open-weight
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:official:1
Projected from retained public Product Facts evidence; no new live vendor verification was performed.
- stack.retirement
OpenAI says gpt-5.2-chat-latest and gpt-5.3-chat-latest will be removed from the API on August 10, 2026, and recommends gpt-5.6-sol as the replacement.
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:stack:ksr-openai-gpt-5-2-5-3-chat-2026-08-10
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:1:1
Exact product relationship ID; dates and summary are projected from the retained Stack Change Radar snapshot.
- stack.migration_deadline
OpenAI will remove the Assistants API on August 26, 2026, one year after notifying developers of its deprecation.
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:stack:ksr-openai-assistants-api-2026-08-26
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:2:1, kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:2:2, kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:2:3, kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:2:4, kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:2:5, kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:2:6
Exact product relationship ID; dates and summary are projected from the retained Stack Change Radar snapshot.
- stack.retirement
OpenAI deprecated gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest and will remove them from the API on December 1, 2026.
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:stack:ksr-openai-gpt-image-2026-12-01
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:3:1, kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:3:2, kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:3:3, kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:stack:3:4
Exact product relationship ID; dates and summary are projected from the retained Stack Change Radar snapshot.
- attention.product_profile
https://kingy.ai/ai-tools/openai-api/
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:attention:1
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:attention:1
This proves the retained Kingy asset occurrence and exact relationship only; it does not prove reach, adoption, or causal lift.
- attention.launch_record
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/gpt-realtime-2-2026-05-07-model-release/
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:attention:2
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:attention:2
This proves the retained Kingy asset occurrence and exact relationship only; it does not prove reach, adoption, or causal lift.
- attention.launch_record
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/gpt-4-1-2025-04-14-model-release/
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:attention:3
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:attention:3
This proves the retained Kingy asset occurrence and exact relationship only; it does not prove reach, adoption, or causal lift.
- attention.launch_record
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/gpt-4-5-2025-02-27-model-release/
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:attention:4
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:attention:4
This proves the retained Kingy asset occurrence and exact relationship only; it does not prove reach, adoption, or causal lift.
- attention.article
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/openai-retires-gpt-5-2-chat-latest-and-gpt-5-3-chat-latest-on-august-10/
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:attention:5
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:attention:5
This proves the retained Kingy asset occurrence and exact relationship only; it does not prove reach, adoption, or causal lift.
- attention.article
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/openai-assistants-api-reaches-its-migration-deadline-august-26/
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:attention:6
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:attention:6
This proves the retained Kingy asset occurrence and exact relationship only; it does not prove reach, adoption, or causal lift.
- attention.article
https://kingy.ai/ai-launch-tracker/older-openai-gpt-image-models-will-leave-the-api-december-1/
Evidence and limits
kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:claim:attention:7
Sources: kingy:distribution-record:openai-api:source:attention:7
This proves the retained Kingy asset occurrence and exact relationship only; it does not prove reach, adoption, or causal lift.
Freshness and monitored sources
- https://openai.com/api/pricing/ · source_failure
kingy:source-watch:openai-api:3e6ab04e9fc3f225 - https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/ · no_change
kingy:source-watch:openai-api:6193ae32f91b2643 - https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations · no_change
kingy:source-watch:openai-api:bab0e18b2802152d
Holds and unknowns
source_health source_read_failed:http_403
What happened next: unknown. No eligible evidence establishes reach, adoption, performance, revenue, retention, or causal impact.