Migrating from text-similarity-babbage-001 to text-embedding-3-small
What changes when you move from text-similarity-babbage-001 to text-embedding-3-small: prices, limits, features and parameters, read from each company's own pages.
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Jan 4, 2024
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | text-similarity-babbage-001 | text-embedding-3-small | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | Not published | $0.02first seen October 1, 2026 · source | — |
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
TokensNeither company publishes a context window or output limit for these models.
Features and parameters
Compare modelsNo feature is published for both models, so none can be compared.
Not published for text-similarity-babbage-001: 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 text-embedding-3-small: Structured outputs, Function calling, Prompt caching, Image input, PDF input, Reasoning / thinking, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Context window, Max output tokens.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at either model.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| text-embedding-3-small | Microsoft Foundryversion 1 | text-embedding-3-small | Feb 9, 2028Active | 482 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
- Change the model string from
text-similarity-babbage-001totext-embedding-3-small.
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: text-similarity-babbage-001, text-embedding-3-small.