Published stages against an editable table
One entry publishes stages, and which stage a model is in decides how much notice its retirement owes. The other publishes a credit conversion table where a model's disappearance is an edit with no stage, no date and nothing distinguishing it from a price revision. As of 2026-09-22.
| On this point | Microsoft Foundry | Runway |
|---|---|---|
| Is a condition published | Preview or generally available, then retired | Not stated for any model |
| Does the condition carry consequences | Yes, it sets the notice owed | Not applicable |
| What a change looks like | A dated row on a schedule | A different conversion table |
| Can a change be dated | Yes, in advance | Only by the reader's own two readings |
| Are licensed models present | Yes, hosted from other makers | Yes, unmarked among house lines |
Inclusion rule. Both cells on a row come from the entry's own published pages: a lifecycle page for the platform, a priced page for the application. Order. Whether a condition exists first, then what a change looks like.
1A stage with consequences is the strongest form here
Most state words in this field mean only that a vendor reserves some freedom. Where a stage decides a number of days, the label becomes something a production can act on before anything is scheduled.
The comparison entry has no label at all, so there is no condition to read and no consequence attached to one. Its page is more detailed about prices and silent about lifecycle.
2Both resell other companies' models
Neither entry makes everything it sells. One hosts other makers' models with its own dated schedule on top; the other lists them in a conversion table with no schedule anywhere.
So the resale layer can publish lifecycle information, and one of these two does. That removes the excuse that a reseller has nothing to say about a model it did not build.
3What a reader can watch on each
On the first, a schedule page with dated rows and a policy behind them. On the second, a conversion table read twice, where a rate change and a retirement look the same.
The ending early reading covers the edit as a mechanism. It is how eleven of the sixteen entries here actually end a model line.
- sora-2 version 2025-12-0815 October 2026retirement date, no replacement named
4Sources
Both readings come from the pages the entries publish themselves: Microsoft Foundry and Runway, read 2026-09-22. The column being compared is Lifecycle states. Other pairs: The Gemini API and LTX Studio, Stages and states.