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babbage-002
Release date not recorded. Accessibility not recorded. Cheapest standard rate we hold: $0.40 per million output tokens, at long context.
What it costs
| Tier | Kind | In | Out | Cached in | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| batch | text | $0.80 | $0.90 | — | seller |
| batch | text · long | $0.20 | $0.20 | — | seller |
| batch | text · short | $0.20 | $0.20 | — | seller |
| standard | text | $1.60 | $1.60 | — | seller |
| standard | text · long | $0.40 | $0.40 | — | seller |
| standard | text · short | $0.40 | $0.40 | — | seller |
per million tokens, US dollars. * marks a rate from a single registry or two that disagree — the best available number rather than a confirmed one. Every other row is confirmed against a seller or a licensed index.
What it scores, by house
This model is not in Epoch's catalogue under a name we can match exactly, so we hold no scores for it. The match is exact after normalisation and never fuzzy, because a loose one would eventually price one model as another.
What retires, and when
- deprecation — 2024-10-28, replaced by gpt-4o-mini
- deprecation — 2026-09-28, replaced by gpt-5.6-terra
- deprecation — 2026-10-23, replaced by gpt-5.6-terra
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