ft-davinci-002 — Deprecated — shutdown October 23, 2026
For ft-davinci-002, provider is OpenAI; lifecycle status is Deprecated; deprecation announced is April 22, 2026; shutdown / retirement date is October 23, 2026; recommended replacement is gpt-5.6-terra, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28; source re-checked 2026-10-12.
- Provider
- OpenAI our reading
- Model ID / API name
- ft-davinci-002 verified
- Lifecycle status
- Deprecated
- Deprecation announced
- April 22, 2026 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- October 23, 2026 verified
- Recommended replacement
- gpt-5.6-terra verified
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What the source says
| October 23, 2026 | `ft-davinci-002` | `gpt-5.6-terra` |
— developers.openai.com, retrieved 2026-08-28
Where each value comes from
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Deprecation announced
On April 22, 2026, we announced the deprecation of the following older OpenAI models. Access to these models was shut down on October 23, 2026.
— 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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