What happened to gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct?
In short
Model retired on .
Access to the gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct model is shut down, with gpt-5.6-terra as the recommended replacement.
Source: OpenAI API deprecations.
What this means
On , OpenAI shuts down access to gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct. This affects developers who still call it through the API. Move to gpt-5.6-terra, the recommended replacement.
More changes from OpenAI
- Assistants API: Replaced on
- babbage-002: Model retired on
- ChatGPT group chats: Access changed on
- ChatGPT on WhatsApp: Access changed on
- davinci-002: Model retired on
- gpt-3.5-turbo-1106: Model retired on
- gpt-5.4-cyber: Model retired on
- OpenAI Operator: Replaced on
- Sora: Shut down on