# babbage

Calls to the model babbage on OpenAI stopped working on January 4, 2024.

- API: OpenAI (api.openai.com)
- Model: babbage
- Kind: Model retirement
- Announced: July 6, 2023
- Takes effect: January 4, 2024
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model babbage`
- Source: [models.dev](https://modeldeprecations.dev/api/v1/models.json?provider=openai)
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/openai/babbage/

## What to use instead

Move to gpt-5.6-terra. babbage-002, named first, stopped working on 2026-09-28. babbage-002 was the direct replacement and is deprecated in turn, shutting down September 2026.