Openai quietly deleted its video api last month. calls to sora-2 and sora-2-pro have returned 410…
openai quietly deleted its video api last month. calls to sora-2 and sora-2-pro have returned 410 gone since sept 25, with no successor model named, while vidu's q4 preview launched oct 7 at $0.014 a second.
the video ai market is being re-divided by people who still ship.
Context
OpenAI's help center says the Sora web and app experiences were discontinued on April 26, 2026 and that the Sora API would be discontinued on September 24, 2026. A write-up dated September 24 says every endpoint, including sora-2, sora-2-pro and dated snapshots, now returns 410 Gone, that the notice was issued on March 24, 2026, and that no successor model exists.
Slop TV News says Shengshu launched Vidu Q4 Preview on October 7, 2026 at a launch rate of $0.014 a second, while Vidu's own list price starts at $0.045 a second at 540p and $0.39 a second at 4K.
The 410 Gone responses and the lack of a named successor match the write-up. The note says the calls have returned 410 since September 25. The sources read give September 24, so the note's date appears to be a day off.
The note says OpenAI quietly deleted the API. OpenAI's help page documents the discontinuation and the write-up says notice was given six months earlier, on March 24, 2026, so it was announced in advance.
The $0.014 a second is a promotional launch rate according to the source. The list price starts at $0.045 a second. The note's claim that the market is being re-divided by people who still ship is the author's view.
Related work
- What to know about the Sora discontinuation (OpenAI Help Center) ↗Primary source for the discontinuation dates.
- OpenAI's Sora 2 Videos API is permanently shut down: with no replacement named (Simon Carter, September 24, 2026) ↗Source for the 410 Gone responses, the notice date and the lack of a successor.
- Vidu Q4 Preview sells AI video from $0.014 a second at launch (Slop TV News, October 8, 2026) ↗Source for Vidu Q4 Preview's launch rate and list prices.
Watch next
- Check OpenAI's notice from March 24. Compare current API prices across video models.
Sources
- What to know about the Sora discontinuation (OpenAI Help Center)help.openai.com
- OpenAI's Sora 2 Videos API is permanently shut down: with no replacement named (Simon Carter, September 24, 2026)simoncarter.ai
- Vidu Q4 Preview sells AI video from $0.014 a second at launch (Slop TV News, October 8, 2026)sloptvnews.com
Provenance
The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 9 October 2026 at 03:17 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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