Important: OpenAI has announced that the Sora 2 API and consumer applications will be discontinued on September 24, 2026 . The iOS and Android apps were already shut down on April 26, 2026. If you're building production systems that depend on video generation, factor this timeline into your architecture decisions — you'll need to migrate to an alternative or wait for OpenAI's next video generation offering well before Q4 2026.

TL;DR: Sora 2 is OpenAI's production video generation API, accessible through POST /v1/videos at api.openai.com . Video generation is asynchronous — you submit a job, poll for status, and download the result once complete. This guide covers authentication, working code examples in curl and Python, and what to actually expect from the model in production.…