code-search-babbage-text-001 — Retired — shutdown 2024-01-04
For code-search-babbage-text-001, provider is OpenAI; lifecycle status is Retired; deprecation announced is July 06, 2023; shutdown / retirement date is 2024-01-04; recommended replacement is text-embedding-3-small, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28.
- Provider
- OpenAI our reading
- Model ID / API name
- code-search-babbage-text-001 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Retired
- Deprecation announced
- July 06, 2023 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 2024-01-04 verified
- Recommended replacement
- text-embedding-3-small verified
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What the source says
| 2024-01-04 | `code-search-babbage-text-001` | $5.00 / 1M tokens | `text-embedding-3-small` |
— developers.openai.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
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Deprecation announced
On July 06, 2023, we [announced](https://openai.com/blog/gpt-4-api-general-availability) the upcoming retirements of older GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 models served via the completions endpoint. We also announced the upcoming retirement of our first-generation text embedding models. They will be shut down on January 04, 2024.
— 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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