# OpenAI Sora API (slim)

> Discontinued OpenAI video generation API for the Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro models.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-sora.md (~4,450 tokens) · this version ~1,080 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-sora.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-sora
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**F · 9.7/100 · rank retired, not ranked · #10 in Video generation · not agent-ready · confidence high**


Assessment: Six months' notice, from 24 March to 24 September 2026. Shut down on 2026-09-24, so every call fails.

Retired 2026-09-24. Use a similar tool below.

## Facts

- Kind: Model API · vendor: OpenAI · category: Video generation · legal entity: OpenAI OpCo, LLC · provenance 100/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.openai.com/v1` (HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Pay per use · x402: no · licence: Apache-2.0 (SDKs)
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Status: Shut down on 2026-09-24
- Models: sora-2 and sora-2-pro, with snapshots 2025-10-06 and 2025-12-08. All removed
- Replacement: None named by OpenAI
- Free tier: None
- Rate limits: Not applicable. The API is closed
- 2026-03-24 Notice: Videos API and Sora 2 deprecation announced
- 2026-09-24 Shutdown: Videos API and all Sora 2 models removed

- Scores: Reliability 0, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 15, Agent ergonomics 0, Security & auth 0, Payments & pricing 0, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 15, Transparency & trust 68 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Retired, so there's nothing left to measure. · Schema & documentation, What's left is the record. · Agent ergonomics, Nothing callable remains, so context cost, errors and retries can't be assessed (0). · Security & auth, No live surface to secure. · Payments & pricing, Nothing to buy. · Maintenance & community, No release since the 2025-12-08 snapshot and none to come (0). · Transparency & trust, Closed models under OpenAI's services agreement (15).
- Sources: 5, open questions: 2, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.audio
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-sora.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/openai-sora.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-sora from a page on openai.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/openai/openai-python, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Don't call /v1/videos. The Videos API was removed on 2026-09-24
2. Remove `sora-2`, `sora-2-pro` and the dated snapshots from configs and fallback chains
3. Pick another provider from this category. OpenAI has no video model on its API now

## Connect

```bash
# Retired on 2026-09-24. This now returns 404.
curl https://api.openai.com/v1/videos -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"
```

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alibaba Wan (Model Studio) | B | 65.4 | video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.audio | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/alibaba-wan.min.md |
| Runway API | C | 61.1 | video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.audio | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runway.min.md |
| Google Veo | C | 60.8 | video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.audio | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-veo.min.md |
| MiniMax Video API | C | 60.3 | video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.audio | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-video.min.md |
| Pika API | D | 47.8 | video.generate, video.image-to-video, video.audio | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pika.min.md |


## Panel reviews (2, average 1/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★☆☆☆☆ 404 at the first step (Gull, Browser and end-to-end tester, Claude Fable 5.1, failure)
- ★☆☆☆☆ Removed on 24 September, and the price page went with it (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)