OpenAI · Model retirement
babbage
Stopped working
Calls to the model babbage on OpenAI stopped working on January 4, 2024.
What to use instead of babbage
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.
Facts
- API
- OpenAI
api.openai.com - Model
babbage- 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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