Model retirement dates / OpenAI
text-similarity-babbage-001
OpenAI retired text-similarity-babbage-001 on 4 January 2024. API calls to it now fail. The recommended replacement is text-embedding-3-small.
| Provider | OpenAI |
|---|---|
| Status | Retired (as of 11 Nov 2026) |
| Shutdown | 4 January 2024 |
| Replacement | text-embedding-3-small |
| Model type | Embedding |
| Source | OpenAI deprecations page |
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Run this in your repository. No install and no API key; it lists every OpenAI, Anthropic and Google model ID it finds, with its retirement date and replacement:
npx -y @aidriftline/driftline .Or look for this ID only: grep -rn "text-similarity-babbage-001" . (misses aliases, Bedrock and Vertex names, and IDs split across lines).
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Same date at OpenAI
code-davinci-edit-001 code-search-ada-code-001 code-search-ada-text-001 code-search-babbage-code-001 code-search-babbage-text-001 text-ada-001 text-babbage-001 text-curie-001 text-davinci-001 text-davinci-002 text-davinci-003 text-davinci-edit-001
Checked against OpenAI's official page on 11 November 2026. Something wrong? hello@aidriftline.com