GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct API Pricing 2026
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Overview
GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct was released on September 28, 2023. Pricing starts at $1.50 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 4K tokens. API access is available through OpenAI.
Pricing Comparison
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Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)
11 models
Provider | Model | Input $/M | Output $/M | Coding | MMLU | GPQA | Context | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
$1.500 | $2.000 | — | — | — | 4,095 | |||
$1.250 | $10.000 | 49.4 | 80.1 | 64.3 | 400,000 | |||
$1.250 | $10.000 | — | — | — | 128,000 | |||
$1.250 | $10.000 | 84.9 | 86.0 | 86.0 | 400,000 | |||
$1.250 | $10.000 | 84.0 | 86.5 | 83.7 | 400,000 | |||
$1.250 | $10.000 | — | — | — | 128,000 | |||
$1.250 | $10.000 | 84.6 | 87.1 | 85.4 | 400,000 | |||
$1.250 | $10.000 | 80.1 | 86.2 | 84.4 | 1,048,576 | |||
$1.250 | $10.000 | — | — | — | 1,048,576 | |||
$1.250 | $1.250 | — | — | — | 128,000 | |||
$1.480 | $1.480 | — | 45.5 | 10.8 | 8,192 |
* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.
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GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.
Provider Pricing
3 models
Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|
OpenAI Best Price | $1.500 | $2.000 | - |
V Vercel Best Price | $1.500 | $2.000 | - |
A Azure Best Price | $1.500 | $2.000 | - |
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