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GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-3-5-turbo-0613
Input / 1M tokens
$1.00
Output / 1M tokens
$2.00
Context window
4,095 tokens
Max output
4,096 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.002
1,000 requests / month$2.00/mo10,000 requests / month$20.00/mo100,000 requests / month$200.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Handles basic text generation, classification, and simple instruction following at very low cost with low latency.
The business tradeoff
Weaker multi-step reasoning and factual consistency than current models; older training cutoff and smaller context limit complex use cases.
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.