DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 Shutting Down May 12 — Three Days Until API Endpoints Stop Working

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OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 API endpoints will permanently stop accepting requests on May 12, 2026 — three days from now. Developers must migrate to gpt-image-1.5 or gpt-image-1-mini. The OpenAI Developer Community warns this 'isn't the drop-in swap it looks like,' citing differences in prompt handling, output format, and pricing. While ChatGPT transitioned to GPT Image 2.0 automatically in December 2025, API users on legacy endpoints face a hard cutoff with no extension.