How much warning does a vendor give before shutting a model down?

Every vendor deprecation page answers when a model dies. None of them answers how long you had. This works it out from the vendors' own published dates - the day they announced it, and the day it stops.

148models with both dates published
3vendors that publish enough to measure
0days, the shortest notice on record

Read this before reading the table

Coverage is not even, and the differences are large enough to change what the numbers mean. One vendor here contributes a hundred measurable models and another contributes seven. A median over seven rows is not comparable to a median over a hundred, and this table does not rank vendors.

A second limit, in the same direction: this can only see what a vendor still publishes. A vendor that deletes old entries from its page looks better here than one that keeps its history, and there is no way to tell those apart from outside.

These are the vendors' own dates, not our observation. Where a vendor states no announcement date at all, it is absent rather than guessed.

VendorMeasuredShortest MedianLongest
OpenAI1013182724
Mistral40091198
Anthropic76062114

days between announcement and shutdown

Vendors that publish a retirement date and no announcement date

Their pages tell you when a model stops and never when they said so, which makes the notice period unknowable from the page itself.

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Check it yourself

Every number above is recomputable from one request. Each record carries the announcement date, the shutdown date and the vendor page both were read from.

The change record is free JSON

Knowing the average is not the same as knowing yours. This tells you which of these models your code calls:

curl -sO https://neosignal-ai.vercel.app/check.py
python check.py .

It names every model your repository calls that is already gone, and exits non-zero so the next one fails the build instead of production.