OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo
by OpenAIOpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo is a large language model from OpenAI. It costs $0.500 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. Its context window is 16K tokens.
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.500
- Output / 1M tokens
- $1.50
- Cached input / 1M
- -
- Context window
- 16K
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Who serves it cheapest
1 hosts serve GPT-3.5 Turbo. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Throughput | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAICheapest | $0.500 | $1.50 | 16K | - | 100.0% |
Benchmarks
Independent scores published alongside the catalogue.
- Coding index
- 10.7
About GPT-3.5 Turbo
GPT-3.5 Turbo is OpenAI's fastest model. It can understand and generate natural language or code, and is optimized for chat and traditional completion tasks. Training data up to Sep 2021.
Specifications
| Model ID | openai/gpt-3.5-turbo |
|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI |
| Context window | 16K tokens |
| Max output | 4K tokens |
| Input modalities | text |
| Output modalities | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2021-09-30 |
| Open weights | No |
| Released | May 28, 2023 |
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How much does OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo cost?
$0.500 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo?
16K tokens, with up to 4K tokens of output per request.
Confirm against the source: OpenAI official pricing.