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How to Preserve Sora Videos Before the April 26, 2026 Shutdown

A practical checklist for creators who want to export, preserve, and organize Sora videos before the Sora web and app experiences are discontinued.

SoraStats TeamApril 20, 2026

Sora creators should export first

OpenAI's Help Center says the Sora web and app experiences will be discontinued on April 26, 2026, and recommends exporting Sora content before that date. It also says post-discontinuation export availability is still being determined.

That makes the practical rule simple: if you created important Sora videos, export them now.

Preservation checklist

Use this order:

1. Request your official Sora export through OpenAI's export flow. 2. Download completed ZIP files as soon as they are ready. 3. Store a copy somewhere outside your main computer, such as cloud storage or an external drive. 4. Keep a simple spreadsheet with video title, posted date, source URL, views, likes, remixes, and notes. 5. Save your public creator profile and top videos as references.

SoraStats can help with the public history layer: rankings, profiles, top videos, and creator statistics. Your official export is still the source you control for your own original files.

What SoraStats preserves

SoraStats focuses on public Sora ecosystem context:

This is useful because a video file alone does not show where it ranked, who made it, or how audiences responded.

What SoraStats does not promise

SoraStats is independent and not affiliated with OpenAI. We cannot guarantee that every source platform asset remains available forever, and we cannot replace the creator's own official export. Public archive pages are for discovery, analytics, and historical context.

For the archive itself, start with Best Sora Videos. For creator history, see Sora Creator History Archive.

Explore the Sora archive

Browse the best Sora videos, creator profiles, rankings, and preserved history from the Sora era.