---
title: Cloud model lifecycle
description: Review upcoming and past retirements of Ollama's cloud models and recommended replacements.
---

Ollama occasionally deprecates and retires older cloud models as newer models become available. Tools and applications that depend on a retired model must be updated to use another model.

Impacted users are notified before a model is retired. Cloud model retirement does not affect local models.

## Upcoming retirements

No cloud model retirements are currently scheduled.

## Past retirements

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="September 25, 2026">
    | Model | Recommended alternative |
    | --- | --- |
    | `qwen3.5:397b` | `glm-5.3` |
    | `glm-5.1` | `glm-5.2` |
    | `deepseek-v4-flash:0731` | `deepseek-v4.1-flash` |
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="July 31, 2026">
    | Model | Recommended alternative |
    | --- | --- |
    | `minimax-m2.5` | `minimax-m2.7` |
    | `kimi-k2.5` | `kimi-k2.6` |
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="July 15, 2026">
    | Model | Recommended alternative |
    | --- | --- |
    | `deepseek-v3.1:671b` | `deepseek-v4-flash` |
    | `deepseek-v3.2` | `deepseek-v4-flash` |
    | `devstral-2:123b` | `mistral-large-3:675b` |
    | `devstral-small-2:24b` | |
    | `ministral-3:14b` | |
    | `ministral-3:3b` | |
    | `ministral-3:8b` | |
    | `gemini-3-flash-preview` | `minimax-m3` |
    | `gemma3:12b` | `gemma4:31b` |
    | `gemma3:27b` | `gemma4:31b` |
    | `gemma3:4b` | `gemma4:31b` |
    | `glm-4.7` | `glm-5.2` |
    | `glm-5` | `glm-5.2` |
    | `minimax-m2.1` | `minimax-m3` |
    | `qwen3-coder-next` | |
    | `qwen3-coder:480b` | |
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="June 30, 2026">
    | Model | Recommended alternative |
    | --- | --- |
    | `rnj-1:8b` | |
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="June 16, 2026">
    | Model | Recommended alternative |
    | --- | --- |
    | `kimi-k2-thinking` | `kimi-k2.6` |
    | `kimi-k2:1t` | `kimi-k2.6` |
    | `minimax-m2` | `minimax-m3` |
    | `glm-4.6` | |
    | `qwen3-next:80b` | `qwen3.5` |
    | `qwen3-vl:235b` | `qwen3.5` |
    | `qwen3-vl:235b-instruct` | `qwen3.5` |
    | `cogito-2.1:671b` | `deepseek-v4-flash` |
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>