GPT-3.5-turbo pricing.
Prices checked
GPT-3.5-turbo costs $0.50 in and $1.50 out per million tokens from OpenAI; the cheapest price is $0.69 at Poe, checked .
OpenAI's own price
OpenAI
$0.50 in · $1.50 out
15% below the typical price of the 392 text models we track.
Cheapest price
Poe
$0.45 in · $1.40 out
8% less than OpenAI, and the provider says why.
Web search from this model costs $10 per 1,000 searches, plus its tokens; dedicated search APIs from $1
Every provider selling GPT-3.5-turbo
- 1$0.69/M tokens
- 2
$0.50 in · $1.50 out
$0.75/M tokens - 3
$0.50 in · $1.50 out
$0.75/M tokens - 4
$0.50 in · $1.50 out
$0.75/M tokens - 5
$0.50 in · $1.50 out
$0.75/M tokens - 6
$0.50 in · $1.50 out
$0.75/M tokens - 7
$0.53 in · $1.58 out
$0.79/M tokens - 8
$1 in · $2 out · 4k context here
$1.25/M tokens - 9
$1 in · $2 out
$1.25/M tokens - 10
$1 in · $2 out · 4k context here
$1.25/M tokens - 11
$1 in · $2 out · 4k context here
$1.25/M tokens - 12$1.63/M tokens
What it costs for your work
A month at OpenAI's own price
A month at Poe, the cheapest
What you save
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
How we count
Prices are per million tokens. The big number on each row is blended 3 in : 1 out, the way most work uses a model. A price below OpenAI's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why.
- Resells
- The provider sells another company's endpoint, at a margin of its own or at the maker's price.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Costs more
- Sold by someone else for more than the maker charges.
Similar models
Models from other labs that do what GPT-3.5-turbo does, cheapest first. Each percentage is against GPT-3.5-turbo's cheapest price, $0.75 per M tokens.
Frequently asked
- Who sells GPT-3.5-turbo cheapest?
- Poe, at $0.45 in and $1.40 out per million tokens, checked 31 Oct 2026. The provider sells another company's endpoint, at a margin of its own or at the maker's price.
- Is GPT-3.5-turbo open weights?
- No. OpenAI keeps the weights, so every price on this page is OpenAI's own or a resale of it. A price below OpenAI's here needs a published reason, or it is listed and not ranked.
- How much context does GPT-3.5-turbo hold?
- 16,385 tokens in one call, which is about 16k.
- How does GPT-3.5-turbo compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.75 per million tokens, OpenAI's own price is 15% below the typical $0.88 across the 392 text models we track.
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