OpenAI · Model retirement
ada
Stopped working
Calls to the model ada on OpenAI stopped working on January 4, 2024.
What to use instead of ada
Move to gpt-5.6-terra. babbage-002, named first, stopped working on 2026-09-28. For embeddings specifically, text-embedding-3-small is the modern equivalent and is not deprecated.
Facts
- API
- OpenAI
api.openai.com - Model
ada- Kind
- Model retirement
- Announced
- July 6, 2023
- Takes effect
- January 4, 2024
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- models.dev
- Last updated
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