ElevenLabs Loses Sora 2 as OpenAI Retires the API, Flags Seedance 1.5 Pro Deprecation

ElevenLabs’ official changelog confirmed on September 23, 2026, that OpenAI is discontinuing the Sora API on September 24, forcing ElevenLabs to pull Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro from its Image & Video tool. The same update set a retirement date for ByteDance’s Seedance 1.5 Pro.

Details

• Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro retired: both models are removed from ElevenLabs’ Image & Video model picker and stop generating once OpenAI shuts down the Sora API on September 24, 2026
• Existing work preserved: generations already made with Sora nodes remain available in a user’s history, but Flows and templates that reference a Sora node must be switched to another video model — ElevenLabs points users to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash — before they can run again
• Seedance 1.5 Pro deprecated: ByteDance is retiring this model on November 11, 2026; it is no longer offered for new generations and will stop working entirely on that date
• Migration path: ElevenLabs is directing Seedance 1.5 Pro users toward Seedance 2.0 models ahead of the shutdown

What happened next

Both changes originate from decisions made by the underlying model providers — OpenAI and ByteDance — rather than ElevenLabs itself, underscoring that ElevenLabs’ Image & Video tool is a routing layer over more than 50 third-party and partner models rather than a single proprietary pipeline. Anyone with Flows or templates built on Sora nodes needs to migrate immediately, since those workflows stop functioning the day after this changelog entry; Seedance 1.5 Pro users have until mid-November before the same fate applies to their pipelines.