GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
azure The API that serves this model and sets the prices shown here. gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct The model identifier to send in API requests. LLM Generates text from a prompt, so it can be compared with other LLMs on price and capability. Medium The balanced tier of a model family, trading some capability for speed and cost. Retired Aug 13, 2026 This model has been retired and can no longer be relied on.Provider: openai · served via Azure
Knowledge cutoff: August 2021
Listed as deprecated on models.dev as of 2026-08-13.
Sticker prices & cost-per-token
List rates as published by Azure, before any volume or enterprise discounts.
$1.50
$2.00
4,096 tokens
4,096
tokens per response (includes reasoning tokens)
Closed weights
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| Effective | Price |
|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2026 – present | Input cost: $1.50 / 1M, Output cost: $2.00 / 1M, Cached input cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache creation cost: $0.00 / 1M, 5-minute cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, 1-hour cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, Reasoning output cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache storage cost: $0.00 / 1M/hr |
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| Date | Changed by | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2026 | Unknown | Initial record created |
Source
https://models.dev/api.json (models.dev provider 'azure', bulk import 2026-08-13)Comparable models
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Frequently asked questions
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct (openai via Azure) costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens, as last published by Azure.
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct has a context window of 4,096 tokens (the maximum combined input and output it can handle in a single request).
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct sits in the medium size tier. Size tiers run from micro (small enough to run on a device) through small, medium and large to extra large (frontier flagships), and are assigned from the model's family, naming and limits rather than its price.
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct can generate up to 4,096 tokens in a single response. Reasoning (thinking) tokens count toward this limit.
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct's training data runs through August 2021, so it may not know about later events. Coolhand records the cutoff at month precision, since providers often publish only the month.
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct accepts text as input and produces text as output, as recorded in the Coolhand catalog.
No — the weights of GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct have not been released, so it is only available through hosted APIs.
Yes — openai deprecated GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct on August 13, 2026. Listed as deprecated on models.dev as of 2026-08-13.
openai retired GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct on August 13, 2026.
Since GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is deprecated, openai customers are moving to GPT-4, GPT-Image-2, and o1 Mini.
Call GET https://coolhandlabs.com/api/v2/inference_apis?q[source_api_eq]=azure&q[model_eq]=gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct — free, no API key required, and scoped to just this model since source_api and model together are unique. See https://coolhandlabs.com/docs for the full REST API reference.
Coolhand also tracks GPT-4, GPT-3.5 Turbo 0125, GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106, GPT-4 Turbo Vision, GPT-4, and GPT-Image-2 from openai. Some may already be deprecated, so check each model's status alongside its current pricing.
| Model | Input cost | Output cost | Context window | Max output tokens | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4 | $30.00/1M $0.0000300000 | $60.00/1M $0.0000600000 | 8,192 | 8,192 |
Deprecated Oct 23, 2026
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| GPT-3.5 Turbo 0125 via Azure | $0.50/1M $0.0000005000 | $1.50/1M $0.0000015000 | 16,384 | 16,384 |
Deprecated Aug 13, 2026
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| GPT-3.5 Turbo 1106 via Azure | $1.00/1M $0.0000010000 | $2.00/1M $0.0000020000 | 16,384 | 16,384 |
Deprecated Aug 13, 2026
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| GPT-4 Turbo Vision via Azure | $10.00/1M $0.0000100000 | $30.00/1M $0.0000300000 | 128,000 | 4,096 |
Deprecated Aug 13, 2026
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| GPT-4 via Azure | $30.00/1M $0.0000300000 | $60.00/1M $0.0000600000 | — | — | Active |
| GPT-Image-2 via Azure | $5.00/1M $0.0000050000 | $30.00/1M $0.0000300000 | — | — | Active |
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