GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k (older v1106)

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API ID: openai/gpt-3.5-turbo-1106

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Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k (older v1106)

GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k (older v1106) is a budget-friendly general-purpose model from OpenAI with standard context (16k), suitable for conversations, content creation, and general AI tasks.

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Model Specifications

Context Length
16k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2023-11-06
Capabilities
chat
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
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OpenAI Python SDK 
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-3.5-turbo-1106",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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