OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
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Our Score
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is a legacy completion model with a tiny 4K context window and no benchmark data — it has been entirely superseded and is not suitable for modern business applications.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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This model is a variant of GPT-3.5 Turbo tuned for instructional prompts and omitting chat-related optimizations. Training data: up to Sep 2021.
$1.50 / 1M
Input Price
$2.00 / 1M
Output Price
4,095 tokens
Context Window
4,096 tokens
Max Output
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | GPT |
| Instruct Type | chatml |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.50 | $0.001500 |
| Output | $2.00 | $0.002000 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
940ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
67 tok/s
Best Throughput
0/1
Active Endpoints
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