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babbage-002

Legacy base model. Migrate fine-tunes and completions callers.

DeprecatedScheduled
Shutdown2026-09-28
Statusurgent
Replacementgpt-5.4-mini
Action requiredProduction calls using babbage-002 will fail after 2026-09-28. Update model strings and re-run integration tests before the cutoff.

Quick fix — copy & paste

Breaks on 2026-09-28

model = "babbage-002"

Use this instead

model = "gpt-5.4-mini"