Migrating from babbage to babbage-002
What changes when you move from babbage to babbage-002: prices, limits, features and parameters, read from each company's own pages.
- From
- babbage
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Jan 4, 2024
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Sep 28, 2026
- Time left
- —
babbage-002 is itself retired. Its replacement is gpt-5.6-terra.
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | babbage | babbage-002 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | Not published | $0.40first seen October 1, 2026 · source | — |
| Output | Not published | $0.40first seen October 1, 2026 · source | — |
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | babbage | babbage-002 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | Not published | Not published | — |
| Max output tokens | Not published | 16,384 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | — |
Features and parameters
Compare modelsNo feature is published for both models, so none can be compared.
Not published for babbage: Structured outputs, Function calling, Prompt caching, Batch API, Image input, PDF input, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Context window, Max output tokens.
Not published for babbage-002: Structured outputs, Function calling, Prompt caching, Image input, PDF input, Reasoning / thinking, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Context window.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at either model.
Checklist
- Change the model string from
babbagetobabbage-002.
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: babbage, babbage-002.