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Migrating from ft-babbage-002 to gpt-5.6-terra

What changes when you move from ft-babbage-002 to gpt-5.6-terra: prices, limits, features and parameters, read from each company's own pages.

Status
Deprecated
Shutdown
Oct 23, 2026
Time left
8 days
Status
Active
Shutdown
none announced
Time left
—

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier
Typeft-babbage-002gpt-5.6-terraChange
InputNot published$2.00first seen October 1, 2026 · source—
Cached inputNot published$0.20first seen October 1, 2026 · source—
OutputNot published$12.00first seen October 1, 2026 · source—

Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.

Limits

Tokens
Limitft-babbage-002gpt-5.6-terraChange
Context windowNot published1,050,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) · source—
Max output tokensNot published128,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) · source—

Features and parameters

Compare models

No feature is published for both models, so none can be compared.

Not published for ft-babbage-002: 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 gpt-5.6-terra: PDF input, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.

Free tier

ft-babbage-002: no free tier listed

gpt-5.6-terra: Free for shared data, 10M tokens a day for Launch and Grow (2.5M for Build), in place when tracking began (October 12, 2026) (source) · All free models

gpt-5.6-terra adds a free tier.

No aliases point at either model.

On cloud platforms

All platform dates
ModelPlatformPlatform IDShutdownTime left
gpt-5.6-terraAmazon Bedrockopenai.gpt-5.6-terranot before Jul 13, 2027Active
gpt-5.6-terraMicrosoft Foundryversion 2026-07-09gpt-5.6-terraJan 11, 2028Active453 days

Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.

Checklist

  1. Change the model string from ft-babbage-002 to gpt-5.6-terra.
Time until shutdown
7days
11hours
24min
53sec

Counting to 8:00 pm ET on October 22, 2026, which is 00:00 UTC on October 23, 2026.

Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: ft-babbage-002, gpt-5.6-terra.