babbage
- Family
- GPT-3
- Released
- 2023-08-22
- Context
- 2K
- Parameters
- 1.3B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2021-09
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 1 route · Azure OpenAI
About
The Babbage model is a large language AI model within the GPT-3 family, recognized for its speed and cost-effectiveness 569. Although it is not as capable as the Davinci model, it outperforms the Ada model in various capabilities 129. Ideal for simpler classification tasks and semantic searches, Babbage efficiently ranks document relevance to search queries 129. With an estimated 1.3 billion parameters 9, it requires less computational power compared to other models like Davinci, which has 175 billion parameters 9.
Providers(1)
Compare API pricing across 1 tracked provider route for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure OpenAI | $0.400 | $0.400 | Provisioned |
Available via routers & gateways(5)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
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API versions
babbagebabbage-002Cheapest of 1 route · Azure OpenAI