Is text-embedding-004 deprecated?

Q: Is text-embedding-004 deprecated?

Not yet, but retirement is scheduled. Sunset scheduled for 2027-04-01, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today.

RETIRING IN 197 DAYS

Sunset scheduled for 2027-04-01, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today.

state=dying sunset=2027-04-01 days_remaining=197 severity=high sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-09-16 03:02Z

openai/text-embedding-004

Vendor: openai. Tracked by 1 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	text-embedding-004	2,048	—	$0.1	$0	2027-04-01

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
medium	deprecated	text-embedding-004: deprecation announced for 2027-04-01 — in 212 days	2026-09-01
medium	deprecated	text-embedding-004: retires 2027-04-01 (in 212 days)	2026-09-01
info	deprecated	text-embedding-004: retires 2026-01-14 (199 days ago)	2026-08-01