OpenAIGPT-3.5 Turbo API pricing
GPT-3.5 Turbo was retired on . Its last price was $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens.
Last price
Launch price
GPT-3.5 Turbo launched at this price on .
Price history
Every price event
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Price change · (exact day not documented)
Repointed from gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 ($1.50/$2.00) to gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 ($0.50/$1.50). OpenAI announced the switch for two weeks after gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 launched, and the changelog dates that launch Feb 1, 2024, so the switch was scheduled for mid-February; no source states the exact day, hence month precision.
- Price: Archived page (openai.com, captured January 25, 2024)
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Next week we are introducing a new GPT-3.5 Turbo model, gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 , and for the third time in the past year, we will be decreasing prices on GPT-3.5 Turbo to help our customers scale. Input prices for the new model are reduced by 50% to $0.0005 /1K tokens and output prices are reduced by 25% to $0.0015 /1K tokens.
- Price: Archived page (openai.com, captured February 1, 2024)
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gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 $0.0005 / 1K tokens $0.0015 / 1K tokens
- Price: Archived page (platform.openai.com, captured December 16, 2025)
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Standard Model Input Output chatgpt-4o-latest $5.00 $15.00 gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 $10.00 $30.00 ... gpt-4-0613 $30.00 $60.00 gpt-4-0314 $30.00 $60.00 gpt-4-32k $60.00 $120.00 gpt-3.5-turbo $0.50 $1.50 gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 $0.50 $1.50 gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 $1.00 $2.00
- Date: Archived page (openai.com, captured January 25, 2024)
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Customers using the pinned gpt-3.5-turbo model alias will be automatically upgraded from gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 to gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 two weeks after this model launches.
- Date: Changelog (developers.openai.com)
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February, 2024 / Feb 1 / Released gpt-3.5-turbo-0125, an updated GPT-3.5 Turbo model
- Price: Archived page (openai.com, captured January 25, 2024)
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Price change ·
25% input price cut, effective the day of the announcement. The alias moved from gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 to gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 on June 27, 2023 at the same price.
- Price: Archived page (openai.com, captured June 13, 2023)
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Today we're reducing the cost of gpt-3.5-turbo’s input tokens by 25%. Developers can now use this model for just $0.0015 per 1K input tokens and $0.002 per 1K output tokens
- Price: Archived page (openai.com, captured June 13, 2023)
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4K context $0.0015 / 1K tokens $0.002 / 1K tokens 16K context $0.003 / 1K tokens $0.004 / 1K tokens
- Date: Archived page (openai.com, captured June 13, 2023)
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Today we're reducing the cost of gpt-3.5-turbo’s input tokens by 25%. Developers can now use this model for just $0.0015 per 1K input tokens and $0.002 per 1K output tokens
- Date: Archived page (openai.com, captured June 13, 2023)
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We continue to make our systems more efficient and are passing those savings on to developers, effective today.
- Price: Archived page (openai.com, captured June 13, 2023)
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Launch price ·
One price for prompt and completion tokens: $0.002 per 1K = $2 per 1M each. The alias pointed at gpt-3.5-turbo-0301.
- Price: Archived page (openai.com, captured March 1, 2023)
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The ChatGPT model family we are releasing today, gpt-3.5-turbo , is the same model used in the ChatGPT product. It is priced at $0.002 per 1k tokens
- Price: Archived page (openai.com, captured March 2, 2023)
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gpt-3.5-turbo $0.002 / 1K tokens
- Date: Archived page (openai.com, captured March 1, 2023)
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The ChatGPT model family we are releasing today, gpt-3.5-turbo , is the same model used in the ChatGPT product. It is priced at $0.002 per 1k tokens
- Price: Archived page (openai.com, captured March 1, 2023)
Gaps in this history
Exact day of the February 2024 repoint to gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 not found (month only). The pricing pages of 2023-2024 list snapshots, not the alias, so no capture directly shows the alias price between 2024-02 and 2025-12. Batch prices for the alias are not listed on any official page found (only for gpt-3.5-turbo-0125).
API ids
gpt-3.5-turbo