---
slug: "azure-ai-custom-vision-service-retirement"
title: "Azure AI Custom Vision retirement"
summary: "Retirement date for the Azure Custom Vision service: 25 Sep 2028. Microsoft provides full support for existing Azure Custom Vision customers until that date."
cloud: "azure"
service: "Azure AI Custom Vision"
service_slug: "ai-custom-vision"
category: "service"
type: "retirement"
announced_date: "2025-10-13"
effective_date: "2028-09-25"
effective_precision: "day"
replacement: "Azure Machine Learning AutoML, Azure AI Foundry models or Azure AI Content Understanding"
affected_versions: []
source_url: "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=502914"
extra_source_urls: ["https://aka.ms/cu-foundry","https://aka.ms/custom-vision-migration"]
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updated_at: "2026-11-13T13:36:44.208Z"
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# Azure AI Custom Vision retirement

Retirement date for the Azure Custom Vision service: 25 Sep 2028. Microsoft provides full support for existing Azure Custom Vision customers until that date.

- Effective date: 25 Sep 2028
- Cloud: [Azure](https://eolwatch.dev/cloud/azure.md)
- Service: [Azure AI Custom Vision](https://eolwatch.dev/services/azure/ai-custom-vision.md)
- Type: Retirement
- Category: [Service](https://eolwatch.dev/categories/services.md)
- Replacement: Azure Machine Learning AutoML, Azure AI Foundry models or Azure AI Content Understanding
- Announced: 13 Oct 2025
- Official source: [azure.microsoft.com](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=502914)
- Last checked: 12 Nov 2026

## What breaks

The Azure Custom Vision service is retired on the retirement date. Existing Azure Custom Vision customers receive full support until the retirement date. During that support window, Microsoft encourages customers to plan and carry out a transition to alternative solutions.

## Who is affected

### Matching resource types

- `microsoft.cognitiveservices/accounts`
- `azurerm_cognitive_account`

### Fields the check reads

- `kind`

### Detected by the estate check from

- Azure Resource Graph export (CSV or JSON)
- Terraform state or plan (JSON)
- ARM template

## What to do

1. For custom image classification and object detection models, Microsoft points to Azure Machine Learning AutoML.
2. To use generative models, pick a model from the [Azure AI Foundry model catalog](https://ai.azure.com/catalog/models) and build your own solution for customized vision.
3. For a managed generative solution for image classification, Microsoft points to [Azure AI Content Understanding](https://aka.ms/cu-foundry), which was in public preview when the retirement was announced.
4. See the [Azure Custom Vision documentation](https://aka.ms/custom-vision-migration) for more context on the alternatives.

## Replacement

Azure Machine Learning AutoML, Azure AI Foundry models or Azure AI Content Understanding

## Sources

- [Official source](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=502914) (azure.microsoft.com, Official)
- [Additional source](https://aka.ms/cu-foundry) (aka.ms, Official)
- [Additional source](https://aka.ms/custom-vision-migration) (aka.ms, Official)

Last checked against the first source in this list on 12 Nov 2026.

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