GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

OpenAI chattool_use

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

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Input Price
$1.50
/1M tokens
Output Price
$2.00
/1M tokens

About GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is a mid-range general-purpose model from OpenAI with standard context (4k), suitable for conversations, content creation, and general AI tasks.

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Price Ranking
#850 lowest price among 950 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
4k
Max Output
4k
Release Date
2023-09-28
Capabilities
chat tool_use
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$1.27
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$40.50
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct API

OpenAI Python SDK 
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()

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

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