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Azure OpenAI Service model deprecations and retirements

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Overview

Azure OpenAI Service models are continually refreshed with newer and more capable models. As part of this process, we deprecate and retire older models. This document provides information about the models that are currently available, deprecated, and retired.

Terminology

  • Retirement
    • When a model is retired, it's no longer available for use. Azure OpenAI Service deployments of a retired model always return error responses.
  • Deprecation
    • When a model is deprecated, it's no longer available for new customers. It continues to be available for use by customers with existing deployments until the model is retired.

Preretirement notification

Azure OpenAI notifies customers of active Azure OpenAI Service deployments for models with upcoming retirements. We notify customers of upcoming retirements as follows for each deployment:

  • At least 60 days before retirement
  • At least 30 days before retirement
  • At retirement

Retirements are done on a rolling basis, region by region.

Who is notified of upcoming retirements

Azure OpenAI notifies those who are members of the following roles for each subscription with a deployment of a model with an upcoming retirement.

  • Owner
  • Contributor
  • Reader
  • Monitoring contributor
  • Monitoring reader

How to get ready for model retirements and version upgrades

To prepare for model retirements and version upgrades, we recommend that customers evaluate their applications with the new models and versions and evaluate their behavior. We also recommend that customers update their applications to use the new models and versions before the retirement date.

For more information, see How to upgrade to a new model or version.

Current models

Note

Not all models go through a deprecation period prior to retirement. Some models/versions only have a retirement date.

These models are currently available for use in Azure OpenAI Service.

Model Version Retirement date
gpt-35-turbo 0301 No earlier than August 1, 2024
gpt-35-turbo
gpt-35-turbo-16k		 0613 No earlier than August 1, 2024
gpt-35-turbo 1106 No earlier than Nov 17, 2024
gpt-35-turbo 0125 No earlier than Feb 22, 2025
gpt-4
gpt-4-32k		 0314 No earlier than July 13, 2024
gpt-4
gpt-4-32k		 0613 No earlier than Sep 30, 2024
gpt-4 1106-preview To be upgraded to a stable version with date to be announced
gpt-4 0125-preview To be upgraded to a stable version with date to be announced
gpt-4 vision-preview To be upgraded to a stable version with date to be announced
gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct 0914 No earlier than Sep 14, 2025
text-embedding-ada-002 2 No earlier than April 3, 2025
text-embedding-ada-002 1 No earlier than April 3, 2025
text-embedding-3-small No earlier than Feb 2, 2025
text-embedding-3-large No earlier than Feb 2, 2025

Deprecated models

These models were deprecated on July 6, 2023 and will be retired on July 5, 2024. These models are no longer available for new deployments. Deployments created before July 6, 2023 remain available to customers until July 5, 2024. We recommend customers migrate their applications to deployments of replacement models before the July 5, 2024 retirement.

If you're an existing customer looking for information about these models, see Legacy models.

Model Deprecation date Retirement date Suggested replacement
ada July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 babbage-002
babbage July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 babbage-002
curie July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 davinci-002
davinci July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 davinci-002
text-ada-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-babbage-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-curie-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-davinci-002 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-davinci-003 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
code-cushman-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
code-davinci-002 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 gpt-35-turbo-instruct
text-similarity-ada-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-babbage-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-curie-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-similarity-davinci-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-ada-doc-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-ada-query-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-babbage-doc-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-babbage-query-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-curie-doc-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-curie-query-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-davinci-doc-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
text-search-davinci-query-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
code-search-ada-code-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
code-search-ada-text-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
code-search-babbage-code-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small
code-search-babbage-text-001 July 6, 2023 July 5, 2024 text-embedding-3-small

Retirement and deprecation history

April 24, 2024

Earliest retirement date for gpt-35-turbo 0301 and 0613 has been updated to August 1, 2024.

March 13, 2024

We published this document to provide information about the current models, deprecated models, and upcoming retirements.

February 23, 2024

We announced the upcoming in-place upgrade of gpt-4 version 1106-preview to 0125-preview to start no earlier than March 8, 2024.

November 30, 2023

The default version of gpt-4 and gpt-3-32k was updated from 0314 to 0613 starting on November 30, 2023. The upgrade of 0314 deployments set for autoupgrade to 0613 was completed on December 3, 2023.

July 6, 2023

We announced the deprecation of models with upcoming retirement on July 5, 2024.