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GPT-3.5 Turbo (batch) Pricing
OpenAI · openai-gpt-3-5-turbo-batch
Input / 1M tokens
$0.250
Output / 1M tokens
$0.750
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)$0.0006
1,000 requests / month$0.6/mo10,000 requests / month$6.00/mo100,000 requests / month$60.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with GPT-3.5 Turbo (batch) preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Handles high-volume batch text completion, classification, and extraction at low cost.
The business tradeoff
Weaker reasoning and factual accuracy than current models; batch processing adds latency and lacks real-time interaction.
Cheaper from OpenAI
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jul 22, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.