Pricingby GlyphGPT-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.
Ways to buy 1
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The lab's own API | $0.5 | $1.5 | $0.5 / $1.5List price | n/a | List price |
USD per 1M tokens; batch $0.25 in, $0.75 out on the lab's API. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $80.00 direct.
Kong AI Gateway$80.00+0%
Cloudflare AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Eden AINot offeredNot offered
HeliconeNot offeredNot offered
LiteLLMNot offeredNot offered
Martian GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Neon AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
OpenRouterNot offeredNot offered
RequestyNot offeredNot offered
Vercel AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
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About GPT-3.5 Turbo
Takes text in and returns text. First listed Mar 26, 2024. Up to 4K output tokens. Blended price $0.75 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id gpt-3-5-turbo.
Price history
List price since Mar 26, 2024, from Internet Archive snapshots of the OpenRouter catalog, then daily reads.
GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI cut its API price: input $1 to $0.5 and output $2 to $1.5 per 1M tokens.
Questions
How much does GPT-3.5 Turbo cost?
$0.5 per million input tokens and $1.5 per million output tokens, or $0.25 and $0.75 through the Batch API.
What is the context window of GPT-3.5 Turbo?
16K tokens, with up to 4K tokens of output.
Has GPT-3.5 Turbo's price changed?
Yes. The output price went from $2 to $1.5, first seen Apr 18, 2024.