OpenAI · Model retirement
davinci
Stopped working
Calls to the model davinci on OpenAI stopped working on January 4, 2024.
What to use instead of davinci
Move to gpt-5.6-terra. davinci-002, named first, stopped working on 2026-09-28. davinci-002 was the named replacement base model and is itself deprecated, shutting down September 2026 — after which OpenAI hosts no base models at all.
Facts
- API
- OpenAI
api.openai.com - Model
davinci- 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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