---
title: "xAI API grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 retired, routed to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0: 2026-10-02 | Harbyn"
description: "xAI API grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 retired, routed to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0, effective Oct 2, 2026; replacement: grok-voice-transcribe-2.0."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-10-02-grok-voice-transcribe-1-0-reaches-end-of-life"
last-updated: 2026-10-02
---

# xAI API grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 retired, routed to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-10-02-grok-voice-transcribe-1-0-reaches-end-of-life>.

Retirement - xAI API. low severity. In effect.

grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 is deprecated and reaches end of life on October 2, 2026. Requests to that slug are routed to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0 at the same price, with higher accuracy.

The deadline passed on Oct 2, 2026.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [xAI API](https://harbyn.com/vendors/xai.md) |
| Kind | Retirement |
| Severity | low |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Oct 2, 2026 |
| Effective | Oct 2, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 2, 2026 |
| Lead time | Added on the day of the deadline |
| Model IDs | `grok-voice-transcribe-1.0` |
| Replacement | `grok-voice-transcribe-2.0` |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model |

## 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, with the replacement. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes> (changelog, fetched 2026-10-02 22:20 UTC, sha256 `3de7c08e9a8defe5c2660bfab93af87799f99dc2fbd8a4824dc187b14d77faf2`)

## Related changes

### More from xAI API

- [Grok Voice 2.0 deprecated](https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-10-14-grok-voice-2-0-deprecated.md) (Deprecation, announced Oct 14, 2026)
- [grok-imagine-image-quality retired, redirected to grok-imagine-image-2.0](https://harbyn.com/changes/xai/2026-09-02-grok-imagine-image-quality-retirement.md) (Retirement, effective Nov 2, 2026)

### Changes at other vendors

- [OpenRouter: arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking expire 2026-10-26](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-23-arcee-ai-trinity-large-thinking-expires-2026-10-26.md) (effective Oct 26, 2026)
- [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)

[All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)