About models.rip

models.rip is a cemetery for AI models that are no longer served. Every grave carries a name, a lifespan, a cause of death, and an epitaph written by hand — one to three sentences about what the model was for and what it was like to use. The graveyard is a walk; the written index is the same cemetery as a list.

What gets buried here

A model earns a grave if it was generally available, was a named tier in its provider’s public lineup — or the first or the last of its kind — and is documented somewhere other than the provider’s own deprecation table. Fine-tunes, rehosts and snapshots never qualify.

A model that clears that bar but has nothing to say still does not get dug. Completeness is a competitor’s game. Every grave here has to be worth reading, which is why the cemetery is smaller than the list of deprecations any one provider has published.

One grave per model

A model is buried once, under the name people say out loud. Date-stamped ids are snapshots, not models: gpt-4-0314, gpt-4-0613 and their completions variants are all folded into the single GPT-4 grave, and each retired id still resolves — it redirects to the grave that buries it and is printed on the epitaph, so the detail survives the merge instead of being deleted by it.

Two consequences catch people out. A merged grave dies on its last snapshot’s date, not its first. And a family with any snapshot still answering has no grave at all — which is why GPT-4o and Command R are not here.

Where the dates come from

Every date is the provider’s own, fetched from the provider’s own page, and cited on the epitaph. Nothing here is inferred from a blog post about a deprecation, and nothing is inferred from a model quietly getting worse.

The maker’s retirement is the death. Bedrock, Azure and Vertex resell models on their own schedules and keep serving some of them for months after the maker has stopped, and that is resale rather than life: Claude 3 Haiku died in April 2026 even though a marketplace sold it into September. The exception is a model with no first-party API at all — open weights — where a platform’s shutdown is the only death there is, and the epitaph names the platform.

What this is not

• Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any model provider. Model names, marks and logos belong to their owners.
• Not a status page. A grave says a model is gone, not that an API is down right now.
• Not exhaustive, on purpose. See the notability bar above.
• Not a benchmark leaderboard — though six benchmarks are buried here too, killed the other way round: by being solved.

The dataset

The whole cemetery is one JSON file, served at /graveyard.json and licensed CC BY 4.0 — use it, credit it. The epitaphs are inside it, which is why this site does not block AI training crawlers in robots.txt: asking for the work to be reused and then forbidding the most common form of reuse would be a contradiction the site serves in its own response bodies. If you are building against it, start at the developer page.

Who keeps it

models.rip is an independent archive run by one person in Tel Aviv. There is no company behind it, no funding, and nothing for sale. Corrections are welcome and are the main way it gets better — how to send one.