Is text-embedding-004 deprecated?

Q: Is text-embedding-004 deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-01-14 — 200 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-01-14 — 200 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

state=dead sunset=2026-01-14 days_remaining=-200 severity=critical sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-08-02 01:41Z

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	2026-01-14

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
info	deprecated	text-embedding-004: retires 2026-01-14 (199 days ago)	2026-08-01