babbage-002 — Deprecated — shutdown 2026-09-28
For babbage-002, provider is OpenAI; lifecycle status is Deprecated; deprecation announced is 2025-09-26; shutdown / retirement date is 2026-09-28; recommended replacement is gpt-5.6-terra, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28.
- Provider
- OpenAI our reading
- Model ID / API name
- babbage-002 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Deprecated
- Deprecation announced
- 2025-09-26 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 2026-09-28 verified
- Recommended replacement
- gpt-5.6-terra verified
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What the source says
| 2026-09-28 | `babbage-002` | `gpt-5.6-terra` |
— developers.openai.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Where each value comes from
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Deprecation announced
2025-09-26: Legacy GPT model snapshots
— all from developers.openai.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Sources
- developers.openai.comhttps://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations.md
- platform.openai.comhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations
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