babbage-002

deprecatedproprietary

Status: Shut down · Succeeded by gpt-5.6-terra

Intelligence
Speed
Max output
16K
Input price
$0.4/1M tokens
Output price
$0.4/1M tokens

Capabilities

Infrastructure
Fine-tuning

Details

Provider OpenAI
Creator openai
Family—
Licenseproprietary
Statusdeprecated
Typechat
Input modalitiestext
Output modalitiestext
Open weightNo
Parameters—
Architecture—
Context window—
Max input—
Max output16K tokens
Reasoning tokens—
Knowledge cutoff
Release date—
Deprecation date
Retirement date
Successorgpt-5.6-terra
Sourceofficial

Endpoints

CompletionsPOST
Legacy text completionhttps://api.openai.com/v1/completions

Pricing

Fine-tuning
TrainingInputCached inputOutput
Standard$0.4$1.6—$1.6
Batch$0.4$0.8—$0.9
Text tokensPer 1M tokens
InputOutput
Standard$0.4$0.4

API

GET/v1/models/openai/babbage-002

babbage-002

deprecated

Status: Shut down

babbage-002
Changes · 10 entries
babbage-002updateca7a400Nov 2, 2026, 03:02 AM
descriptionGPT base models can understand and generate natural langu...→Status: Shut down
successorgpt-4o→gpt-5.6-terra
pricingtiers[{"label":"Fine-tuning","unit":"","columns":["Training","...→[{"label":"Fine-tuning","unit":"","columns":["Training","...
deprecation_date2025-09-26
retirement_date2026-09-28
babbage-002updateb2f45bfOct 29, 2026, 03:29 AM
descriptionGPT base models can understand and generate natural langu...→Status: Shut down
babbage-002update4e8b6afOct 21, 2026, 06:35 AM
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...→[{"label":"Fine-tuning","unit":"","columns":["Training","...
babbage-002update118451aSep 24, 2026, 07:08 AM
successorgpt-4o→gpt-5.6-terra
pricingtiers[{"label":"Fine-tuning","unit":"","columns":["Training","...→[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...
deprecation_date2025-09-26
retirement_date2026-09-28
babbage-002updatee8ec634Mar 24, 2026, 07:27 PM
knowledge_cutoff2021-08→2021-09
babbage-002updatef43e286Mar 24, 2026, 04:45 AM
capabilitiesstreamingnovisionnotool callnostructured outputnojson modenoreasoningno
babbage-002update1cd659eMar 24, 2026, 04:19 AM
knowledge_cutoff2021-09→2021-08
page_urlhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/models/babbage-002→https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/babbage-002
babbage-002updateb301ebeMar 23, 2026, 11:47 PM
knowledge_cutoff2021-08→2021-09
babbage-002update2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
licenseproprietary
page_urlhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/models/babbage-002
open_weightno
babbage-002createb50649fMar 21, 2026, 11:58 PM