GPT-4.1 retired from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026; OpenAI’s announcement left API access unchanged
OpenAI’s announcement says GPT-4.1 was retired from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026, while API access remained unchanged.
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The OnAirToday AI Progress Tracker recorded a verified change to OpenAI's GPT-4.1 (version gpt-4.1-2025-04-14): GPT-4.1 retired from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026; OpenAI’s announcement left API access unchanged.
GPT-4.1 is OpenAI’s text-and-image input model focused on coding, instruction following, and long-context tasks, with text output and a context window exceeding one million tokens. OpenAI retired it from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026; the retirement announcement left API access unchanged.
What changed in this review:
- OpenAI’s launch evaluation reports GPQA Diamond at 66.3%, SWE-bench Verified at 54.6%, and Aider Polyglot at 52.9%.
- Added OpenAI’s published MMMU result of 74.8%.
- Flaws and limitations updated
- Risks and threats updated
Teams building on GPT-4.1 should confirm limits, pricing and benchmark coverage against the vendor's own documentation before relying on these figures.
The full profile — capabilities, benchmark citations, known flaws and risk guidance — is on the tracker at /ai-models/gpt-4-1.
References:
- https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4.1
- https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/
- https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-other-chatgpt-models/
- https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt4-1promptingguide
Generated insight by OnAirToday AI
The change separates GPT-4.1’s availability in ChatGPT from its availability through the API. Users of the two offerings may therefore face different access status.

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