Shut down, retired & renamed AI tools
AI tools come and go fast. These 44 listings shut down, were retired, renamed or changed what they sell. Each has the date (where the source gives one), the source, and what to use instead. Status last checked 2026-10-12.
Shut down (19) · Deprecated or retired (3) · Renamed (12) · Product changed (9) · Limited availability (1)
Shut down (19)
| Tool | What happened | Date | Use this instead | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3DFY.ai |
3DFY.ai appears to be shut down. A directory marked it inactive in November 2025, and 3dfy.ai didn't resolve when we checked on October 11, 2026. | November 2025 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): Kaedim3D, Polycam | [1] |
| Amper Music |
Amper Music's standalone composer is no longer available. Shutterstock acquired its assets in November 2020. | November 2020 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): Suno, Udio | [1] |
| Avatarify |
Avatarify is retired and no longer maintained. Its install instructions and dependencies are outdated. | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): Reface, Lensa AI | [1] | |
| DALL·E 3 |
The DALL·E 3 API was retired on May 12, 2026. Image generation is now built into ChatGPT, and developers should use OpenAI's gpt-image models. | May 12, 2026 | ChatGPT image generation More ChatGPT alternatives |
[1] [2] |
| Debuild |
Debuild is no longer active. It was listed as shut down in February 2024, and PitchBook records the company as out of business. | February 2024 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): v0 by Vercel, Base44 | [1] [2] |
| GPT Engineer |
The gpt-engineer repository was archived (read-only) on April 22, 2026. Lovable is its maintained commercial successor. | April 22, 2026 | Lovable (gpt-engineer’s commercial successor) More Lovable alternatives |
[1] [2] |
| Gretel.ai |
Gretel's standalone self-serve product is discontinued after NVIDIA acquired Gretel in March 2025. gretel.ai now serves NVIDIA synthetic-data / NeMo pages rather than the old Gretel signup and pricing. Capabilities continue inside NVIDIA NeMo (Data Designer / Safe Synthesizer) under NVIDIA AI Enterprise. | March 2025 | NVIDIA NeMo synthetic data (Data Designer / Safe Synthesizer) | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
| Luma AI (3D) |
Luma sunset Genie, its text-to-3D generator, on January 1, 2026, and the 3D Capture app is reported as no longer working. Luma's video product, Dream Machine, has its own listing. | January 1, 2026 | Luma Dream Machine (Luma’s video product) More Luma Dream Machine alternatives |
[1] [2] |
| OctoAI |
NVIDIA acquired OctoAI in September 2024, and OctoAI shut down its cloud services on October 31, 2024. | September 2024 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): Replicate, Baseten | [1] [2] |
| OpenAI Five |
OpenAI retired OpenAI Five in April 2019 after its final matches. It was a research project and was never a public product. | April 2019 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): Inworld AI, Unity ML-Agents | [1] |
| Papers With Code |
Papers With Code was shut down in July 2025. paperswithcode.com now redirects to Hugging Face's Trending Papers, and the datasets live on in a public archive. | July 2025 | Hugging Face Trending Papers Or, in our directory: arXiv, ResearchRabbit |
[1] [2] |
| Phind |
Phind shut down on January 16, 2026. Paid users got prorated refunds, and data was deleted after January 30, 2026. | January 16, 2026 | No successor found. We didn't find a live replacement we can vouch for. | [1] |
| photorestorer |
photorestorer.ai returned NXDOMAIN when we checked on October 11, 2026, and we found no successor site. Look-alikes such as PhotoRestore.ai are different products. | October 11, 2026 | No successor found. We didn't find a live replacement we can vouch for. | [1] |
| PromptPerfect |
PromptPerfect closed to new signups in June 2026 and went offline on September 1, 2026, following Elastic's acquisition of Jina AI. | June 2026 | No successor found. We didn't find a live replacement we can vouch for. | [1] [2] |
| Ready Player Me |
Netflix acquired Ready Player Me in December 2025 and shut down its public services and developer APIs on January 31, 2026. | December 2025 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): Reface, Lensa AI | [1] [2] |
| Roo Code |
Roo Code shut down its VS Code extension, Cloud and Router on May 15, 2026 to focus on Roomote, a cloud coding agent. | May 15, 2026 | Roomote (Roo Code’s cloud coding agent) Or, in our directory: GitHub Copilot, Cursor |
[1] [2] |
| Socratic |
The Socratic apps are no longer available, and socratic.org redirects to Google Lens homework help. | Google Lens homework help Or, in our directory: Khan Academy, Coursera |
[1] [2] | |
| Sora |
Sora has been shut down. OpenAI closed the Sora app on April 26, 2026 and the Sora API on September 24, 2026. This listing is kept for reference only. | April 26, 2026 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): Pika, Runway | [1] [2] |
| Supermaven |
Supermaven was sunset in November 2025 after Cursor (Anysphere) acquired it. VS Code users are directed to Cursor. | November 2025 | Cursor (acquired Supermaven) More Cursor alternatives |
[1] |
Deprecated or retired (3)
| Tool | What happened | Date | Use this instead | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT Canvas |
Canvas isn't available on current ChatGPT models. Paid users keep it on legacy models until those retire. Inline writing and code blocks replace it. | ChatGPT inline writing and code blocks More ChatGPT alternatives |
[1] | |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is deprecated and retires from the Claude API on November 30, 2026. Anthropic recommends migrating to Claude Sonnet 5.5. | November 30, 2026 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 More Claude alternatives |
[1] |
| Grok 3 |
grok-3 was retired from the xAI API on May 15, 2026. Calls now redirect to grok-4.3, and Grok 4.7 is the current flagship. | May 15, 2026 | Grok 4.7 (current Grok flagship) More Grok alternatives |
[1] |
Renamed (12)
| Tool | What happened | Date | Use this instead | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon CodeWhisperer (now Amazon Q Developer / Kiro) |
CodeWhisperer was rebranded as Amazon Q Developer, and AWS is now moving Q Developer IDE and CLI users to Kiro. | Amazon Q Developer / Kiro Or, in our directory: GitHub Copilot, Cursor |
[1] [2] | |
| Amazon SageMaker AI |
AWS renamed the original SageMaker to Amazon SageMaker AI in December 2024. SageMaker Unified Studio is the broader data and AI environment. | December 2024 | Amazon SageMaker AI (same product, renamed) | [1] |
| Atoms (formerly MGX / MetaGPT X) |
MGX (MetaGPT X) has rebranded as Atoms, at atoms.dev. | Atoms (formerly MGX) | [1] | |
| Codeium |
Codeium renamed itself Windsurf in April 2025, and its extensions became the Windsurf Plugin. Cognition later renamed the Windsurf editor Devin Desktop. | April 2025 | Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) More Windsurf (Devin Desktop) alternatives |
[1] [2] |
| Foundry (now Mithril) |
Foundry rebranded as Mithril on August 4, 2025, at mithril.ai. | August 4, 2025 | Mithril (formerly Foundry) | [1] |
| Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) |
Google renamed Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform in April 2026. | April 2026 | Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (same product, renamed) | [1] |
| Lambda |
Lambda Labs now goes by Lambda, at lambda.ai. | Lambda (same company, new name) | [1] | |
| Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio) |
Azure AI Studio was renamed Azure AI Foundry, and is now Microsoft Foundry. | Microsoft Foundry (same product, renamed) | [1] | |
| Ona (formerly Gitpod) |
Gitpod is now Ona, at ona.com. | Ona (formerly Gitpod) | [1] | |
| Perplexity Spaces (now Projects) |
Perplexity renamed Spaces to Projects. | Perplexity Projects More Perplexity alternatives |
[1] | |
| Replit Ghostwriter (now Replit AI) |
Ghostwriter was renamed Replit AI in November 2024. | November 2024 | Replit AI More Replit Agent alternatives |
[1] |
| Windsurf (Devin Desktop) |
Windsurf is now Devin Desktop. Cognition renamed the editor, and windsurf.com now redirects to devin.ai/desktop. | Devin Desktop (same product, new name) | [1] [2] |
Product changed (9)
| Tool | What happened | Date | Use this instead | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgentGPT |
AgentGPT's GitHub repository was archived (read-only) on January 28, 2026, and its maker Reworkd sunset its commercial product in 2025. | January 28, 2026 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): AutoGPT, Manus | [1] [2] |
| BabyAGI |
The original BabyAGI task loop is archived (frozen since September 2024). The main repo is now an experimental, not production-ready framework. | September 2024 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): LangChain, SuperAGI | [1] [2] |
| Gemini CLI |
Google stopped serving free, AI Pro and Ultra individual accounts in Gemini CLI on June 18, 2026, and directs them to Antigravity CLI. Paid API-key and enterprise users are unaffected. | June 18, 2026 | Antigravity CLI (for free and AI Pro/Ultra accounts) Or, in our directory: Aider, OpenCode |
[1] [2] |
| Inworld AI |
Inworld retired its hosted Character Studio in 2025 and now sells a developer runtime plus realtime voice and inference APIs. | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): Unity ML-Agents, Latitude Voyage | [1] [2] | |
| MiniMax Music |
MiniMax Music 2.5 has been unavailable to new API users since August 20, 2026. MiniMax points to MiniMax Audio and its open-source Music 3 model. | August 20, 2026 | MiniMax Audio or the open-source MiniMax Music 3 Or, in our directory: Suno, Udio |
[1] |
| Paperspace |
Paperspace is now part of DigitalOcean. The legacy Gradient and Core APIs are deprecated, and the Gradient SDK retired on August 15, 2026. | August 15, 2026 | DigitalOcean (Paperspace is now part of it) Or, in our directory: Lambda, RunPod |
[1] [2] |
| Resemble AI |
Resemble AI stopped selling hosted voice cloning and TTS to new customers on August 13, 2026, and now focuses on deepfake detection and security. | August 13, 2026 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): ElevenLabs, Speechify | [1] |
| SuperAGI |
SuperAGI's open-source framework hasn't had a release since January 2024, and a critical security issue was reported open. The company now focuses on an AI sales/CRM platform. | January 2024 | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): LangChain, BabyAGI | [1] [2] |
| You.com |
You.com has pivoted from consumer AI search to developer search and research APIs. The consumer Pro plan is no longer on its public pricing page. | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): TeamAI, Magai | [1] [2] |
Limited availability (1)
| Tool | What happened | Date | Use this instead | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Udio |
Downloads are disabled. Since the UMG partnership, Udio has turned off audio, video and stem downloads on all plans, including paid ones. You can still create and listen inside Udio. | Closest live alternatives in our directory (same category, not official successors): Suno, AIVA | [1] |
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