OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)

Public pricingIntelligence 66/100Small memoryTool use

OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) is a text model for coding, debugging, and technical work. It combines strong coding performance and low latency and efficient inference with a 4K tokens context window and a balanced-cost profile. Use it for coding, debugging, and technical writing when latency, cost, and throughput matters.

Input

$1.00/1M

Output

$2.00/1M

Cached

$0.15/1M

Batch

$0.75/1M

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Technical specifications

GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) 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

Jun 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

  • mmlu

    70

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 (older v0613)

  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.
  • Your inputs routinely exceed short documents.

Alternatives

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FAQ

GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) — 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 (older v0613) costs roughly $155 per month. Input is $1.00 /1M tokens and output is $2.00 /1M tokens.
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) 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 (older v0613) supports calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) was released in June 2023, with training data cut off around September 2021.
Models in a similar class include o3 Mini, o3 Mini High, o4 Mini. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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