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Model retirement schedule in Azure Government

This article lists the retirement schedule for Foundry Models in Azure Government — their current lifecycle stage, retirement date, and suggested replacement. Use it to plan migrations before a model is deprecated or retired. For details on what each lifecycle stage means and how notifications work, see Microsoft Foundry Models lifecycle and support policy in Azure Government.

Foundry Models sold directly by Azure in Azure Government

This section lists the retirement lifecycle for Foundry Models sold directly by Azure in Azure Government.

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Model Version Lifecycle Retirement date Replacement
gpt-4.1 2025-04-14 GA 2027-10-14
gpt-4.1-mini 2025-04-14 GA 2027-10-14
gpt-4o 2024-11-20 GA 2026-10-01 gpt-4.1
gpt-5.1 2025-11-13 GA 2027-05-15
o3-mini 2025-01-31 Deprecated 2026-08-02 gpt-5.1
text-embedding-3-large 1 GA 2027-04-15
text-embedding-3-small 1 GA 2027-04-15
text-embedding-ada-002 2 GA 2027-04-15