Model Details
Where is Babbage-002 Legacy a perfect fit?
- Legacy applications that depend on stable, unchanged outputs
- Migration staging environments before upgrading to newer models
- Cost-sensitive pipelines where upgrading is not yet justified
- Internal tools relying on predictable, pre-existing prompt behavior
- Bulk processing tasks with historically tuned prompts
- Systems where output consistency matters more than performance improvements
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Your Babbage-002 Legacy Cost Estimate
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for 1000 input + 1000 output tokens
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FAQs about Babbage-002 Legacy
How much does Babbage-002 Legacy cost per 1M tokens?
Babbage-002 Legacy costs between $0.80 and $1.60 per million input tokens, and between $0.90 and $1.60 per million output tokens. The range covers Standard and Batch pricing.
What does a typical workload cost with Babbage-002 Legacy?
1,000 requests of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each — 2,000,000 input and 500,000 output tokens in total — costs $2.05 with Babbage-002 Legacy at its lowest rates. Use the calculator on this page for your own volumes.
Where can I use Babbage-002 Legacy?
Babbage-002 Legacy is available through OpenAI, from $0.80 per million input tokens.
Is there cheaper Babbage-002 Legacy pricing than the standard rate?
Yes. Batch pricing for Babbage-002 Legacy starts at $0.80 per million input tokens against $1.60 on the standard tier, about 50% lower.
What is Babbage-002 Legacy's context window?
Babbage-002 Legacy has a context window of 16,384 tokens.
Is Babbage-002 Legacy still available?
Babbage-002 Legacy is deprecated and was retired on 19 April 2026. The replacement is Babbage-002.