Skip to content

Some links may be affiliate links. We may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more

Editor-selected listing
Verified by our team
Independent & reader-supported

Pricing & free tier — last checked

How we checked: read directly from the vendor's own pricing page — source

The URL returns 404 and the name appears in no OpenAI documentation. Orion was a reported codename; nothing shipped under it. We had it listed as a free product.

WhatWhat we foundStatus
openai.com/orion404 Not FoundWe were sending readers from our free tools page to a URL that does not exist. Changed since last check
Presence in OpenAI's model documentationAbsent. Also absent from the GPT-5 announcement page. Confirmed
"Free research preview for approved developers"Withdrawn — we had no evidence such a programme existed Changed since last check
The performance figures this page carriedWithdrawn. No benchmark produced them and there is no public model to run one against.The body text had already been corrected in an earlier pass today, while the meta description and two FAQ answers still published the same numbers. Seventh instance today of a correction landing in one field while the claim stood in another, and the second where the earlier pass was our own. Changed since last check
Structured dataWas emitting an Offer at $0.00 to search enginesOur detail pages attach a zero-price Offer to anything typed free or freemium, so the classification was publishing a machine-readable offer for a product that does not exist. Retyping to not-released removes it. Changed since last check

Editor verification notes

  • Kept as a corrected page rather than deleted: the name still draws searches, and most of what those searches surface repeats the same rumours as fact.

Checked by the TheToolsVerse Verification Desk — by reading the vendor's own published pages, not by testing the product in an account. Orion by OpenAI (never released) can change prices at any time without notice. The date above is the last time we looked; if it looks old, treat every figure here as unconfirmed and check Orion by OpenAI (never released) directly before paying.

How we verify →

Pricing

Not available at any price, because there is no product to price. We previously listed this as a free research preview for approved developers, which described an access programme we had no evidence existed. The URL this page linked to, openai.com/orion, returns 404; the name appears in neither OpenAI's model documentation nor its GPT-5 announcement. Checked 7 September 2026.

What is Orion by OpenAI (never released)?

There is no product called Orion. The name circulated in press reporting during 2024 as an internal OpenAI codename, and this page treated that reporting as a product launch. We are leaving the page up, corrected, rather than deleting it, because people still search the name and most of what they will find repeats the same rumours as fact. What we published here was wrong in a specific and avoidable way. This listing carried a context length, a hallucination-reduction percentage, a reasoning multiple, and a description of a research-preview access programme. None of them came from OpenAI. openai.com/orion returns 404, the name appears nowhere in OpenAI's model documentation, and it is absent from the GPT-5 announcement. We had the listing classified as free, which told readers they could go and use it, and because our detail pages attach an offer to anything free, we were also publishing structured data to search engines declaring an offer at $0.00. What OpenAI has actually shipped is documented at platform.openai.com under the model names it uses publicly. If you came here after reading that Orion was imminent, the honest summary is that reporting on unreleased frontier models is frequently wrong about names, timing and capability, and that a directory repeating it adds nothing except the appearance of confirmation. This page will be rewritten as a product listing if OpenAI ever releases something under this name, and not before. Browse AI solutions.

Associated Tags

openai orion, strawberry ai, unreleased ai model, ai rumour vs fact

Key Features

Never released — there is no feature list, because there is no product
The capabilities this page used to list were taken from press reporting, not from OpenAI
openai.com/orion returns 404 (checked 7 September 2026)
Absent from OpenAI's published model documentation
Absent from OpenAI's GPT-5 announcement

Top Alternatives

Discontinued
Mirage by Decart logo

Mirage by Decart

⚠ mirage.decart.ai does not exist in DNS as of 7 September 2026 — the address we listed cannot be reached. Mirage by Decart is the first real-time AI video-to-video model that transforms live streams into any visual style using a text prompt at under 40ms latency.

Free
Gemma 3 by Google logo

Gemma 3 by Google

Gemma 3 is Google's open-weight multimodal AI model family supporting text, images, and video across 140+ languages under Apache 2.0.

Paid
mnml.ai logo

mnml.ai

AI turns 3D models and sketches into photorealistic renders in seconds. Free credits on signup, no card; the paid ladder is not published outside the product.

Free
Dreamina AI logo

Dreamina AI

Dreamina AI by CapCut generates images, video, and talking avatars on free daily credits, running Seedance 2.5, Sora 2, Veo 3.1, and Nano Banana Pro — though the daily allowance is never published.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use OpenAI Orion?
No. Nothing has been released under that name. openai.com/orion returns a 404, and the name does not appear in OpenAI's model documentation.
Is Orion free?
The question does not apply, and we should not have implied otherwise. This page previously described a free research preview for approved developers. We had no evidence such a programme existed.
This page used to quote a hallucination-reduction percentage and a reasoning multiple. Where did they come from?
Those numbers were on this page and should not have been. They did not come from OpenAI or from any benchmark, and there is no public model anyone could run to test them. We have withdrawn them.
What did OpenAI actually release?
The models OpenAI ships are listed under their public names in its API documentation. Orion is not among them.