davinci — Retired — shutdown 2024-01-04

For davinci, provider is OpenAI; lifecycle status is Retired; deprecation announced is July 06, 2023; shutdown / retirement date is 2024-01-04; recommended replacement is davinci-002, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28.

Provider: OpenAI our reading
Model ID / API name: davinci verified
Lifecycle status: Retired
Deprecation announced: July 06, 2023 verified
Shutdown / retirement date: 2024-01-04 verified
Recommended replacement: davinci-002 verified

Sourcedevelopers.openai.com

Verified2026-08-28

Review by2026-09-27

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What the source says

| 2024-01-04 | `davinci` | $20.00 / 1M tokens | `davinci-002` |

— 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 disagree

More than one authority states this, and they do not state the same thing. Both are reproduced with the source each came from — deciding between them is yours, not ours.

Recommended replacement

developers.openai.com says recommended replacement is davinci-002, as of 2026-08-28.

| 2024-01-04 | `davinci` | $20.00 / 1M tokens | `davinci-002` |

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations.md

platform.openai.com says recommended replacement is davinci-002, gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4o, as of 2026-08-28.

2024-01-04 | davinci | $30.00 / 1M tokens | $120.00 / 1K tokens | davinci-002, gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4o |

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

Sources

developers.openai.comhttps://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations.md
platform.openai.comhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations

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