Replacement for GPT-4o in the OpenAI GPT Plugin

[Jim Kirkpatrick]

OpenAi is retiring GPT-4o:

"On February 13, 2026, alongside the previously announced retirement⁠ of GPT‑5 (Instant and Thinking), we will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT. In the API, there are no changes at this time"

In the OpenAI GPT Plugin setup changing gpt-4o to gpt-5.2 has no obvious effect. Looking at the config file for the plugin, it appears that gpt-4o is hardwired there. Will it be updated or is there a way to get the system working on gpt-5.2?

Jim

[Dan Huby]

Hi Jim,

The plugin settings override what is set in the config.php file on disk, so you're likely on gpt-5.2. There isn't a lot of difference for DAM use except it costs an awful lot more.

I think you might have misunderstood the message though because the changes are just for ChatGPT - "In the API, there are no changes at this time" so there's no need to move right now.

We have been experimenting with Ollama and Google Gemma 3 (both open source) running on a local PC with a decent GPU and it works extremely well, so we'll be setting up a production server that does the same. It's almost a drop-in replacement but the image part of the API is slightly different so we're adding an Ollama compatibility mode. It was just a few lines that needed changing. So we will be moving away from OpenAI ourselves. We will have to run servers with GPUs in our data centre - not cheap! - but we will have fixed costs and no external data transfer or dependency which will be great. 

It's quite impressive how even the smaller Gemma 3 models are a match for GPT-4o.

Dan