OpenAI is discontinuing Sora, its AI video generation product, ending the platform including its app and API access.
OpenAI announced the shutdown of Sora, its AI video generation platform, with a farewell message from the Sora Team. The announcement confirms the app and API will be discontinued, with timelines to be shared later. This follows Sora's high-profile launch in late 2024 and a rumored partnership with Disney. OpenAI stated it will provide details on preserving user-created content before shutdown.
If you integrated Sora's API into any video generation workflow, that integration has an expiration date with no confirmed migration path yet. OpenAI has not published deprecation timelines, which means you're building on unstable ground. Runway ML, Kling, and Pika are the immediate API alternatives with production-ready endpoints.
This week, audit any codebase referencing the Sora API and benchmark Runway ML's Gen-3 Alpha API as a drop-in replacement — compare output quality on your top 5 most-used prompts before the Sora shutdown date is announced.
Go to runwayml.com/api and sign up for API access or use your existing key
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