Sora, honestly

Sora Was Discontinued. Here's What That Means.

OpenAI ended the Sora app and web experience on April 26, 2026; the API follows on September 24, 2026. If you were waiting for access, the wait is over in the wrong direction. This page covers the dates, the surviving video tools — and what genuinely works in Telegram today: images, not video, and we say so plainly.

App/web ended 26.04.2026 · API sunsets 24.09.2026.No video claims — images are what's live
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App/web discontinued 26.04.2026API sunsets 24.09.2026Today in Telegram: images, not video

Capability honesty

We never had Sora — and we won't pretend to replace it

VUST has no video generation: not Sora's, not Veo's, not anyone's. What's live in Telegram is the still-image toolkit — text-to-image, prompt edits, background replacement at 3✦ per operation — plus frontier chat models for scripts and shot lists. That covers the planning-and-stills half of a video project; the rendering half belongs to the dedicated video vendors listed above.

Discontinuation dates sourced from OpenAI's own help center notice; verified 2026-07-07.

See the difference

The timeline, the landscape after, and the honest Telegram scope.

The timeline

How Sora wound down

Sora 1 was sunset for US users on March 13, 2026. On April 26, 2026 OpenAI discontinued the Sora app and web experience entirely, per its own help center. The Sora API remains available to existing integrations only until September 24, 2026.

What it means

If you were waiting for an invite or planning to subscribe: there is no longer a consumer Sora to get into. Guides promising 'Sora access tricks' in 2026 are describing a product that no longer exists.

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The landscape after Sora

Text-to-video didn't die with Sora: Google's Veo family, Kling, Runway, Luma and Pika continue as the active players, each with its own access model and pricing.

Our honest position

VUST has NO video generation today — not Sora's, not anyone's. We won't sell you 'video in Telegram' that doesn't exist. If video lands in our stack, this page will say so; until then the button below registers interest, nothing more.

What works in Telegram today

The live capability next door

Image generation and editing: text-to-image at 3✦ per image, prompt-based edits, background replacement and enhancement — in @vustPortraitBot, paid with Telegram Stars, no subscription.

Where that covers Sora-adjacent needs

Storyboards, key frames, thumbnails, concept art — the still-image half of many 'I wanted Sora' projects works today. The moving half honestly doesn't, here or in Sora itself.

02·Practical use cases

Who lands here, honestly

The access-waiters

Still hunting a Sora invite in 2026

The hunt is over: OpenAI discontinued the app and web on April 26, 2026. Any 'access trick' content post-dating that is describing a ghost.

Video-project planners

A project that assumed Sora would render it

Veo, Kling, Runway, Luma and Pika remain the active vendors. For the stills half — storyboards, key frames, thumbnails — Telegram image generation works today at 3✦.

The rug-pull wary

Deciding which AI products to depend on

Sora's arc (US sunset March 13, 2026 → full consumer discontinuation April 26 → API end September 24) is a fair case study in platform risk. Per-use beats prepaid when products can vanish.

03·How it works

The timeline, verified

01March 13, 2026

Sora 1 sunset for US users — the first public step of the wind-down.

02April 26, 2026

OpenAI discontinues the Sora app and web experience entirely, per its own help center notice.

03September 24, 2026

The Sora API is slated for discontinuation — existing integrations only until then. No consumer path remains.

04·Same tool · in Telegram

Telegram

The stills half works today

@vustbot · Storyboards, key frames, thumbnails: generate and edit images at 3✦ each in Telegram — and draft scripts with frontier chat models.

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05·Quality & trust

Capability honesty

VUST has no video generation

Not Sora's, not anyone's — and this page will keep saying so until that changes. The deeplink is a demand counter, not a feature unlock.

What IS live nearby

Text-to-image, prompt edits, background replacement and enhancement at 3✦ per operation in @vustPortraitBot — the still-image half of many video projects.

No invented reasons

OpenAI's notice gives dates, not a detailed rationale. We report the dates and decline to speculate — a page about honesty shouldn't guess.

Frequently asked questions

What works while video doesn't.

AI Image Generator

The live capability: generate, edit, enhance at 3✦.

Midjourney alternative

No subscription, no Discord — images at 3✦ in Telegram.

AI Chat (all models)

Draft scripts and shot lists with frontier models.

Ready when you are

Sora ended. Your project didn't.

Rendering moves to the surviving video vendors; planning, scripts and stills run in Telegram today — per-use, no subscription to strand.

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