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title: "OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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description: "OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct: $1.50/M in, $2.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct: $1.50/M in, $2.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

OpenAI · released 2023-09-28

 $1.63 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $1.50 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $2.00 /M |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 4K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 4K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2021-09-30 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

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.