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Azure AI Foundry grok-4-fast-reasoning model retirement

Stopped working

On May 1, 2026, Azure AI Foundry will retire model grok-4-fast-reasoning. Any calls directed to model grok-4-fast-reasoning after that day will fail.


What to use instead of grok-4-fast-reasoning

Migrate to grok-4-1-fast-reasoning, which is named first and stops working on May 19, 2027. No replacement that holds is named yet.


Facts

API
Azure AI Foundry *.services.ai.azure.com
Model
grok-4-fast-reasoning
Kind
Model retirement
Takes effect
May 1, 2026
Calls after that day
Fail
Source
Deprecations page
Last updated
Verified
, against Azure AI Foundry's own pages

Questions

When does grok-4-fast-reasoning shut down?

Calls to the model grok-4-fast-reasoning on Azure AI Foundry stopped working on May 1, 2026.

What happens to calls after May 1, 2026?

They have failed since May 1, 2026.

How do I find the calls this hits in my code?

Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.


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