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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.

Context Window
4K
tokens
Pricing
Input$1.50
Output$2.00
per 1M tokens
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Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$1.500
$2.000
4,095
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GPT 3.5 Turbo Instruct costs $0.001500 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.002000 per 1,000 output tokens.
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