Sora 2

Released
2025-09-30
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 175d ago
DeprecatedProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodal

Sora 2 is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.

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Specifications
Family
Sora
Released
2025-09-30
Architecture
Diffusion
Specialization
video-generation
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing
Price / sec
$0.10/sec

Cheapest of 1 route · Prodia

About

OpenAI's second-generation text-to-video model generating up to 20-second videos at 720p with synchronized audio from text and image prompts; deprecated with API shutdown September 24, 2026.

Providers(1)

Compare published price / sec across 1 tracked provider route.

ProviderPrice / secRoute
Prodia$0.10/sec
Serverless

Deprecated provider routes(1)

ProviderStatusCatalog ID
OpenAI API
DeprecatedRetired September 24, 2026
sora-2

Available via routers & gateways(15)

Capabilities

Multimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
1,342text_to_video overall 2026-11-09Observed 2026-11-10
Configuration: Sora 2
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena text to video leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-11-09 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a31507ef, latest split; dataset main tip ec013bce). Board entry 'Sora 2': rank 19 of 50, Arena Score 1342.2 (95% CI 1336.2-1348.3), 73,992 votes. Organization openai. LLM Reference model is lifecycle-deprecated; score kept as historical. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-10.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.