GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
ActiveGPT-3.5 Turbo is OpenAI's fastest model. It can understand and generate natural language or code, and is optimized for chat and traditional completion tasks. Training data up to Sep 2021.
Overview
GPT-3.5 Turbo is OpenAI's fastest model. It can understand and generate natural language or code, and is optimized for chat and traditional completion tasks. Training data up to Sep 2021.
History
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) became available via the OpenAI API on 2024-01-25.
Training & availability
Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2021-09-30 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. OpenAI has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.
Capabilities
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Context window: 4K tokens.
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Input modalities: text.
Limitations
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The knowledge cutoff is 55 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
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The context window (4K tokens) is modest by 2026 standards — unsuitable for processing long documents in a single request.
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Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.
Pricing
- Input: $1.0000 per 1M tokens
- Output: $2.0000 per 1M tokens
Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.
Quick start
Minimal example using the openai API. Copy, paste, replace the key.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="sk-...")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-3-5-turbo-0613",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.
Providers & performance
1 providerMulti-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.
| Provider | Throughput | Latency (TTFT) | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Context | Quant | Supports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure | 79tok/s | 695ms | $1 | $2 | 4K | — | tools · json |
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Not supported
- Structured outputs
- Not supported
Price vs quality
Standard pricing band. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.
- Quality percentile
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- Effective price
- $1.75/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $1/1M in
$2/1M out
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