# babbage — AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider

For babbage, provider is OpenAI; lifecycle status is Retired; deprecation announced is July 6, 2023; shutdown / retirement date is 2024-01-04; recommended replacement is babbage-002, recorded from its source on 2026-08-12.

- **Provider:** OpenAI _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Model ID / API name:** babbage _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** Retired _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Deprecation announced:** July 6, 2023
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 2024-01-04 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** babbage-002 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> babbage-002 | 2024-01-04 | curie | $3.00 / 1M tokens | $12.00 / 1M tokens | davinci-002 | 2024-01-04 | davinci | $30.00 / 1M tokens | $120.00 / 1K tokens | davinci-002 , gpt-3.5-turbo , gpt-4o | First-generation text embedding models Shutdown date | Deprecated model | Deprecated model price | Recommended replacement | 2024-01-04 | text-similarity-ada-001 | $4.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-search-ada-doc-001 | $4.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-search-ada-query-001 | $4.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | code-search-ada-code-001 | $4.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | code-search-ada-text-001 | $4.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-similarity-babbage-001 | $5.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-search-babbage-doc-001 | $5.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-search-babbage-query-001 | $5.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | code-search-babbage-code-001 | $5.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | code-search-babbage-text-001 | $5.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-similarity-curie-001 | $20.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-search-curie-doc-001 | $20.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-search-curie-query-001 | $20.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-similarity-davinci-001 | $200.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-search-davinci-doc-001 | $200.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2024-01-04 | text-search-davinci-query-001 | $200.00 / 1M tokens | text-embedding-3-small | 2023-06-13: Updated chat models On June 13, 2023, we announced new chat model versions in the <https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates> Function calling and other API updates blog post. The three original versions will be retired in June 2024 at the earliest.

## Source

- https://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations

Last verified: 2026-08-12. Review by: 2026-09-11.
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