OpenAI Sora 2
still good, shutting down on 24 september 2026
sora 2 pro still ranks fifth on lmarena, and the api shuts down on 24 september 2026 — do not start anything here.
this entry exists as a warning rather than a recommendation. openai is retiring sora in two stages: the consumer web and app experiences closed on 26 april 2026, and the api shuts down on 24 september 2026. developers on the videos api and sora 2 model aliases were formally notified in march.
the model itself is not the problem. sora 2 pro still sits fifth on lmarena, ahead of every veo variant, and its native audio was genuinely category-defining when it launched.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai video models
- pricing
- ~$0.10 / second standard, ~$0.30 pro
- website
- openai.com
sora 2 pro still ranks fifth on lmarena, and the api shuts down on 24 september 2026 — do not start anything here.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.