# computer-use-preview

Calls to the model computer-use-preview on OpenAI stopped working on July 23, 2026.

OpenAI retired the model computer-use-preview on July 23, 2026. This retirement affects requests using model computer-use-preview, including model snapshot computer-use-preview-2025-03-11. Calls made to this model fail since that date.

## The error OpenAI returns once computer-use-preview is gone

HTTP 404

```json
{"error":{"message":"The model `computer-use-preview` has been deprecated, learn more here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations","type":"invalid_request_error","param":null,"code":"model_not_found"}}
```

## What to use instead

Move to gpt-5.6-terra, recommended by OpenAI.

- API: OpenAI (api.openai.com)
- Model: computer-use-preview
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: July 23, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model computer-use-preview`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against OpenAI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/openai/computer-use-preview/

## OpenAI's words

> Shutdown date: July 23, 2026; Model snapshot: computer-use-preview-2025-03-11 | computer-use-preview; Substitute model: gpt-5.6-terra

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent