Sora API Is Dead — Here's How I Migrated My App to NexaAPI in 30 Minutes

I was in the middle of a code review when my phone started buzzing. Slack notifications. Then more. Then a Pagerduty alert. Our video generation service — the one we'd spent three months building on top of the Sora API — had gone completely dark. Every single request was returning a 404. Not a rate limit. Not a timeout. A 404 with a message I'd never seen before: OpenAIError: 404 - The model 'sora-1' has been deprecated and is no longer available. It was March 24, 2026. OpenAI had just killed Sora. And I had about 200 angry users and zero migration path. What Actually Happened OpenAI shut down both the Sora consumer app and the Sora API simultaneously. No deprecation notice. No 90-day runway. No recommended alternatives. Just gone. The story that really got me: Disney was apparently in an active planning meeting about Sora integrations when the API died — 30 minutes into the meeting. If Disney didn't get advance notice, none of us were getting advance notice. The reasons being cited ar