Azure Custom Vision Is Retiring: Deprecation Migration Guide

Azure Custom Vision is scheduled for retirement on September 25, 2028, rendering its training and prediction APIs unusable and its portal inaccessible, thus necessitating immediate transition plans for users. The service's closure is part of Microsoft's shift towards integrating cognitive services into the Foundry platform, focusing on generative and multimodal models. Users are encouraged to export their datasets via the training API before the service ends and consider migration options such as Roboflow, which offers a similar workflow with enhanced features like AI-assisted labeling and active learning, or Azure's Machine Learning AutoML for those preferring to stay within Microsoft's ecosystem. The migration process includes exporting datasets, importing them into Roboflow, retraining models using RF-DETR, and redeploying them, either through hosted inference or on-device with Roboflow Inference for offline capabilities. The transition is recommended sooner than later to avoid data loss and to leverage ongoing model improvements.