AI graveyard: what shut down, and how to move
thecontinuitylayer.com/map/graveyardChecked 22 October 2026. No affiliate links, no recommendations.
AI tools die often, and the big labs retire their own products and models too. When that happens, moving is left to you. Here is what shut down or stopped selling in 2026, what replaces it, and whether we found a way to get your data out. If no source describes an export, we say so.
At a glance
| Date | What | Replaced by | Your data |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 January | Phind | Not named in our source | No export path found |
| 15 May | Roo Code | Cline, roomote.dev, or the ZooCode fork | No export path found |
| 9 August | ChatGPT Atlas | Not named in our source | No export path found |
| 31 August | Flowise (end of life) | Not named in our source | No export path found |
| 14 September | Relay.app | Not named in our source | No export path found |
| 22 September | Notion Mail | Notion agents | No export path found |
| 9 October | Gemini Code Assist (new sales) | Antigravity via Gemini Enterprise | No export path found |
| 14 October | GPT-5.5 in ChatGPT and Codex | Not named in our source | No export path found |
| 23 October | gpt-4.1-nano on the OpenAI API | Not named in our source | No export path found |
| 2 November | Vellum platform | Not named in our source | No export path found |
Phind: shut down 16 January 2026
Phind was an AI search engine for developers. It closed about a month after raising $10 million, as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini added the same search and coding help. No replacement or export path is named in our source.
Source: tooldirectory.ai AI Graveyard 2026, checked 22 October 2026.
Roo Code: shut down 15 May 2026
Roo Code was an open-source AI coding agent for VS Code. Its extension, cloud service and router all shut down on 15 May 2026, after an announcement on 20 April. Users were pointed to Cline and roomote.dev; a community fork called ZooCode also exists. No export path found.
Sources: Distill Intelligence, Morph, checked 22 October 2026.
ChatGPT Atlas: shut down 9 August 2026
ChatGPT Atlas was OpenAI's web browser with ChatGPT built in. It shut down on 9 August 2026. Our source does not name a replacement or a way to export browsing data or memories. No export path found.
Source: tooldirectory.ai AI Graveyard 2026, checked 22 October 2026.
Flowise: end of life 31 August 2026
Flowise was a low-code tool for building AI agents and chat flows by dragging boxes together. It reached end of life on 31 August 2026 after Workday acquired it, as coding agents took over much of what low-code builders did. No export path found.
Source: tooldirectory.ai AI Graveyard 2026, checked 22 October 2026.
Relay.app: shut down 14 September 2026
Relay.app was an AI workflow automation tool. It shut down on 14 September 2026 after Google hired the team without buying the product. No export path found.
Source: tooldirectory.ai AI Graveyard 2026, checked 22 October 2026.
Notion Mail: shut down 22 September 2026
Notion Mail was Notion's email app. It shut down on 22 September 2026 because more than half of its users were already handling email through Notion agents, which is where that work now lives. No export path found.
Source: tooldirectory.ai AI Graveyard 2026, checked 22 October 2026.
Gemini Code Assist: new sales ended 9 October 2026
Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise are Google Cloud's AI coding assistant subscriptions. Google stopped selling new ones on 9 October 2026 and points buyers to Antigravity through Gemini Enterprise. It has published no price comparison.
- 4 September: buying it from the Cloud console was removed.
- 17 September: new Gemini Enterprise Standard and Plus purchases stopped including it.
- Existing customers can renew until 31 January 2027 (annual) or 31 December 2027 (monthly).
- No export path found.
Source: TechInformed, checked 22 October 2026.
GPT-5.5: retired from ChatGPT on 14 October 2026
GPT-5.5 was an OpenAI model. It was retired from ChatGPT and Codex on all plans on 14 October 2026. No export path found.
Source: UsageBox, checked 22 October 2026.
gpt-4.1-nano: retires from the OpenAI API on 23 October 2026
gpt-4.1-nano is a small, cheap OpenAI model used by developers through the API. It retires from the OpenAI API on 23 October 2026, but stays on Microsoft Azure until 14 April 2027. The same model can die on different dates on different clouds. No export path found.
Source: BenchLM Radar, checked 22 October 2026. BenchLM counted 80 published retirement dates in the 90 days after 13 October.
Vellum: platform shuts down 2 November 2026
Vellum is a platform for building and testing AI apps and agents. Its platform is due to shut down on 2 November 2026. No export path found.
Source: Vellum, checked 22 October 2026.
Before the next one goes
Other lists of dead AI tools exist, such as the tooldirectory.ai AI Graveyard, which we used as a source above. The best protection is to keep your own context ready to move before you need it: see Import yes, export no. Dated changes go into Did it change?.