--- title: "OpenRouter z-ai/glm-4.5 expire 2026-12-31 | Harbyn" description: "OpenRouter z-ai/glm-4.5 expire 2026-12-31." canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-21-z-ai-glm-4-5-expires-2026-12-31" last-updated: 2026-09-21 --- # OpenRouter z-ai/glm-4.5 expire 2026-12-31 Markdown version of . Retirement - OpenRouter. high severity. Announced. Upcoming. The OpenRouter models API lists an expiration date of 2026-12-31 for z-ai/glm-4.5. After that date requests to these model ids are expected to fail on OpenRouter. No replacement is listed by the API. 67 days left: the deadline is Dec 31, 2026. ## Facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | [OpenRouter](https://harbyn.com/vendors/openrouter.md) | | Product | models | | Kind | Retirement | | Severity | high | | Status | Announced | | Announced | Sep 21, 2026 (undated by the vendor; already published when we first read the page) | | Effective | Dec 31, 2026 | | Added to Harbyn | Sep 21, 2026 | | Lead time | 101 days of warning | | Model IDs | `z-ai/glm-4.5` | | Review | Automated, extracted by a deterministic parser | ## Find it in your code ```sh npx harbyn scan ``` The scanner reads your repository on your machine and reports every file and line that uses the identifiers above. Nothing leaves your machine. ## Sources Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot. - (spec, fetched 2026-09-21 03:10 UTC, sha256 `781756dcd1fbc6f38a312f5ef13953cc48ca325b4d3530ccefade8be1ba4fda5`) ## Related changes ### More from OpenRouter - [deepseek/deepseek-v3.2 and 3 more expire 2026-09-28](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-21-deepseek-deepseek-v3-2-expires-2026-09-28.md) (Retirement, effective Sep 28, 2026) - [deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-21-deepseek-deepseek-v4-flash-0731-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Sep 21, 2026) - [deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-21-deepseek-deepseek-v4-pro-0813-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Sep 21, 2026) - [dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free expire 2026-09-30](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-09-21-dots-studio-dots-3-note-preview-free-expires-2026-09-30.md) (Retirement, effective Sep 30, 2026) ### Changes at other vendors - [Google Cloud Run and Functions: Node.js 20 runtime decommission](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-node-js-20-runtime-decommission.md) (effective Oct 30, 2026) - [Mistral AI: Z.ai GLM 5.2 (zai-glm-5-2) retires on Mistral on October 31, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/mistral/2026-09-29-z-ai-glm-5-2-deprecated-and-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026) - [Fireworks AI: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 retires from Serverless Training November 2](https://harbyn.com/changes/fireworks/2026-10-18-upcoming-serverless-training-deprecation-deepseek-v4-flash-0731.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026) - [GitHub: GitHub Actions: macOS 14 runner image retired on November 2, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/github/2026-10-01-github-actions-macos-14-runner-image-retirement.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026) [All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)