OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

Public pricingIntelligence 69/100Small memory

OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct은 일반 대화, 분석, 운영 환경에 맞춘 텍스트 모델입니다. 안정적인 범용 성능, 4K tokens의 컨텍스트, 균형형 비용 특성을 결합해 general chat, analysis, and production workloads에서 안정적인 작업을 돕습니다. 특히 품질, 속도, 비용가 중요한 경우에 잘 맞으며, 안정적인 출력, 유연한 배포, 확장성을 중시하는 팀에 실용적입니다. 안정적인 응답, 넓은 문맥 처리, 그리고 시제품부터 운영까지 이어지는 유연성이 필요할 때 유용합니다. 안정적인 응답, 넓은 문맥 처리, 그리고 시제품부터 운영까지 이어지는 유연성이 필요할 때 유용합니다.

Input

$1.50/1M

Output

$2.00/1M

Cached

$0.15/1M

Batch

$0.75/1M

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Technical specifications

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct at a glance.

Memory

4,095

tokens

Max reply

4,096

tokens

Memory tier

Small

a few emails or a short document

Tokenizer

tiktoken-o200k

Released

Sep 2023

Training cutoff

Sep 2021

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

Independent evaluations from public leaderboards. Higher is better.

  • gpqa_diamond

    28.03

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

  • GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct fits general-purpose text tasks within its memory tier.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.
  • You need tool-use / function calling for agent workflows.
  • Your inputs routinely exceed short documents.

Alternatives

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FAQ

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct — the questions we see most.

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct costs roughly $193 per month. Input is $1.50 /1M tokens and output is $2.00 /1M tokens.
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct has a 4,095-token context window (small memory — a few emails or a short document). That means you can fit about 768 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct supports fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct was released in September 2023, with training data cut off around September 2021.
Models in a similar class include GPT-5, GPT-5 Chat, GPT-5 Codex. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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