GPT 3.5 Turbo API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

GPT 3.5 Turbo was released on May 28, 2023. Pricing starts at $0.500 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 16K tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.

Context Window

16K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.500

Output$1.50

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output95 tok/s

TTFT0.41s

median latency

Capabilities

Text only

Pricing Comparison

Compare GPT 3.5 Turbo with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
O OpenAI	GPT-3.5 Turbo	$0.500	$1.500	—	46.2	29.7	16,385	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen-Plus	$0.400	$1.200	—	—	—	1,000,000	Try
TD Thedrummer	UnslopNemo 12B	$0.400	$0.400	—	—	—	32,768	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	$0.400	$0.400	23.2	67.6	40.9	131,072	Try
BD Baidu	ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B	$0.420	$1.250	—	—	—	123,000	Try
MS Moonshotai	Kimi K2.5	$0.450	$0.440	—	—	78.9	262,144	Try
U9 Undi95	ReMM SLERP 13B	$0.450	$0.650	—	—	—	6,144	Try
AR Arcee AI	Coder Large	$0.500	$0.800	—	—	—	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemini 3 Flash Preview	$0.500	$3.000	79.7	88.2	81.2	1,048,576	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Large 3 2512	$0.500	$1.500	—	—	—	262,144	Try
MS Moonshotai	Kimi K2 0711	$0.500	$2.400	55.6	82.4	76.6	131,072	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

GPT 3.5 Turbo is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.500

Cheapest Input/M

$1.500

Cheapest Output/M

OpenAI

Best Price

Provider Pricing

3 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
OpenAI Best Price	$0.500	$1.500	100.0%
V Vercel Best Price	$0.500	$1.500	-
A Azure	$1.500	$2.000	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Cost vs. Quality

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

9.0 (4th pct)

Coding

10.7 (18th pct)

Math

MMLU Pro

46.2 (10th pct)

GPQA

29.7 (10th pct)

LiveCodeBench

AIME

Aider

57.9 (43th pct)

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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