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Models do not vanish on a Tuesday.
Apps that hard-code a model id should not 404 overnight. We publish notice, then we keep the old slug hitting a named successor.
notice
30 days public
Changelog post plus a banner on the model page. Not a tweet.
successor
90 days of routing
After removal, the old id keeps hitting a documented successor. Free models do not silently become paid.
The rules
- 1. Thirty days public notice before we stop serving a model we listed. Notice is a changelog post plus a banner on the model page.
- 2. Ninety days of successor routing. After removal, the old slug keeps hitting a documented successor. Your hard-coded
modelfield does not 404 while you migrate. - 3. Free stays free. A free model that we cannot host for free is deprecated under (1) and (2). We do not bill you when the free lane dies.
- 4. Weights dying is not silent. If an upstream actually retires a checkpoint, we say so on day zero and start the 30/90 clock.
Slugs we keep on purpose
Character cards and old tutorials pin ids. These stay. The rest of the catalog is on /models.