Leonardo API retires Sora 2 / Veo 3 paths — migrate or break
What happened
What happened: Leonardo’s deprecations doc shows provider-driven retirements through mid-2026—Sora 2/Pro gone (Jul 9), Veo 3/Fast retiring toward Veo 3.1, Motion 1.0 consolidation, plus earlier alias/parameter cleanups. Tool impact: Leonardo buyers who wired video models into pipelines face forced migrations; Midjourney still wins stills taste, Firefly/Canva win brand ops, Leonardo’s API surface is only as stable as upstream video vendors.
Switch or not?
If you depend on Leonardo video APIs, migrate to documented successors (e.g. Veo 3.1) this sprint—don’t start new Sora/Veo3 paths. For stills-only teams, this is a reminder to abstract model IDs, not a reason to dump Leonardo tomorrow.
Money / risk
Silent production breakage > sticker price. Budget eng time for model ID swaps and re-evals; pin versions in config.
Source
Leonardo AI API docs (Deprecations) · verify independently