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GPT-3.5 Turbo Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-3-5-turbo
Input / 1M tokens
$0.500
Output / 1M tokens
$1.50
Context window
16,385 tokens
≈ 22 pages of text
Max output
4,096 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0012
1,000 requests / month$1.20/mo10,000 requests / month$12.00/mo100,000 requests / month$120.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-3.5 Turbo preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Efficient for high-volume conversational responses, classification, and basic summarization at low latency and cost.
The business tradeoff
Weaker multi-step reasoning and instruction following than current flagships; context window limits long-document tasks.
Cheaper from OpenAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.