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  "provider": "openai",
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  "name": "text-embedding-ada-002",
  "aliases": [],
  "description": "The embedding model behind most retrieval systems built between 2022 and 2024, and one of the most commonly assumed-dead ids on the platform. It is not on OpenAI's deprecations page: re-embedding a corpus is expensive enough that the old vectors have to keep working, so this one has outlived every chat model of its era.",
  "released_on": "2022-12-15",
  "status": "active",
  "replacements": [
    {
      "provider": "openai",
      "model": "text-embedding-3-small",
      "recommended": false,
      "note": "Not a deprecation — but 3-small is cheaper and scores better. Only worth it if you can afford to re-embed everything, since vectors from the two models are not comparable.",
      "external": false
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations",
      "title": "OpenAI API deprecations",
      "accessed": "2026-07-30"
    }
  ],
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