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GPT-3.5 Turbo

Cheapest OpenAI API access; largely superseded by GPT-4o mini at similar cost.

Creator: OpenAI
Lifecycle: Deprecated
Context: 16.4K
Max output: 4.1K
Released: Mar 1, 2023
Status: up

Input: $0.50 / 1M tokens
Output: $1.50 / 1M tokens
Cached read: — / 1M tokens
Cached write: — / 1M tokens
Batch discount: —%
Source: GPT-3.5 Turbo pricing
Verified: Apr 5, 2026 (High)

Capabilities

Modalities: text→text
Capabilities: batchSupportfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
Strengths: Legacy familiarity, Simple fine-tuning
Tradeoffs: No vision, small context, being deprecated

Official Links

Intro

https://openai.com/blog/gpt-3-5-turbo-fine-tuning-and-api-updates

Docs

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models

Pricing

https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing/

Release note

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9624314-model-release-notes

Benchmark Coverage

Benchmark	Version	Score	Date	Source	Notes

Release History

Release	Alias	Lifecycle	Release Date	Deprecation	Shutdown	Summary
GPT-3.5 Turbo	gpt-3-5-turbo	Deprecated	Jan 25, 2024	—	—	Current published model family snapshot.

Host Coverage

Host	Type	Context	Pricing Note	Differences
OpenAI API	first-party	16.4K	Scheduled for shutdown September 2026.	—

Migration Guidance

Migrate to GPT-4o mini or GPT-4.1 nano.

Replacement models: gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4-1-nano

Change Events

Date	Type	Title	Description	Source
Mar 1, 2023	family_added	GPT-3.5 Turbo published	Initial public model family launch.	GPT-3.5 Turbo release notes

Other models from OpenAI

GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, GPT-4.1 nano, GPT-4o, GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4o mini, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5.4 nano, o1, o3, o3-mini, o4-mini