GPT-3.5 Turbo API Pricing
Retired October 23, 2026: OpenAI shut gpt-3.5-turbo down on that date, and calls to it now fail; OpenAI names GPT-5.6 Terra as the substitute. This archive keeps the final $0.50/$1.50 workhorse price. $0.5/M input, $1.5/M output. It was the default low-cost OpenAI model for 2023 and remains useful for old invoice comparisons.
GPT-3.5 Turbo API cost calculator.
Archive calculator pre-loaded with the last GPT-3.5 Turbo rates OpenAI published. Tweak spend, output mix, or cache hit rate to compare legacy bills with current replacements.
GPT-3.5 Turbo cost on real workloads.
Repo-wide bug fix
Reading 100-page contracts
Support agent ticket triage
Research planning turn
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| Model | Input /M | Output /M | Effective blended | Context | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-3.5 Turbo Current | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.58 agentic 92/8 | 16K | Reasoning archive comparisons |
| GPT-5.5 | $5.00 cache $0.50 | $30.00 | $3.61 +6.2× | 1M | Current OpenAI flagship |
| GPT-5.4 | $2.50 cache $0.25 | $15.00 | $1.80 +3.1× | 1.05M | Current OpenAI daily driver |
| GPT-5.4 mini | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $4.50 | $0.541 −7% | 400K | Current cheap OpenAI workloads |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 cache $0.10 | $10.00 | $1.29 +2.2× | 1M | Anthropic's current Sonnet |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 cache $0.075 | $3.75 | $0.481 −17% · promo | 1M | Gemini long-context work |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.32 cache $0.044 | $3.96 | $0.569 same | 1M | Low-cost reasoning and coding |
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GPT-3.5 Turbo API pricing FAQ.
Short answers for teams checking GPT-3.5 Turbo pricing, status, and migration choices.
Q · 01 Can I still use GPT-3.5 Turbo? +
gpt-3.5-turbo would be shut down on October 23, 2026, and its deprecations page now says access was shut down on that date. The substitute OpenAI names is GPT-5.6 Terra. OpenAI's pricing page still prints this model's rates in its legacy table, but they no longer buy anything; the figures here are the last OpenAI published, kept for old invoices and migration math.