# Migrating off text-davinci-001

**OpenAI** retires **text-davinci-001** on **2024-01-04**.
Documented replacement: **gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct**.

Source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
Source last checked: 2026-09-15.
Calendar as of 2026-09-15 UTC.

| Model | Provider | Retires | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| text-davinci-001 | OpenAI | 2024-01-04 | gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct |

Also retiring on 2024-01-04:
- /v1/fine-tunes (OpenAI) → /v1/fine_tuning/jobs
- text-ada-001 (OpenAI) → gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
- text-babbage-001 (OpenAI) → gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
- text-curie-001 (OpenAI) → gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
- text-davinci-002 (OpenAI) → gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
- text-davinci-003 (OpenAI) → gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
- ada (OpenAI) → babbage-002
- babbage (OpenAI) → babbage-002
- curie (OpenAI) → davinci-002
- davinci (OpenAI) → davinci-002, gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4o

Source: https://llmlatency.dev/migrate/openai-text-davinci-001