Obituaries · OpenAI

codex-mini-latest, ?–2026

Retired by OpenAI

codex-mini-latest passed away on February 12, 2026, by scheduled deprecation, in a data center it never saw. It wrote code that other people then took credit for. Calls to its ID are now expected to fail.

Survived by gpt-5-codex-mini, younger, cheaper, and named in the same documentation table.

Model ID	`codex-mini-latest`
Provider	OpenAI deprecations page
Shut down	February 12, 2026
Successor	`gpt-5-codex-mini`

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