Side by side

GPT-4 vs GPT-3.5 Turbo

Up to 4 models, normalised onto the same cost basis and scored through the lens you pick.

	GPT-4 OpenAI	GPT-3.5 Turbo OpenAI
Cost of talking
Per minute	$0.062	$0.0031
Per hour	$3.75	$0.187
30-min interview	$1.87	$0.094
List price	$10 / $30 per 1MPublished	$0.5 / $1.5 per 1MPublished
Recruitment fit
Overall	48/100	22/100
Verdict	Historic interest only — cheaper current models beat it on both quality and cost.	Do not screen candidates with this. Its judgement is not good enough to put in front of a hiring decision.
Best for	Nothing new. Migrate existing pipelines.	Nothing candidate-facing
Watch out for	Costs more than GPT-5.6 while performing worse	16K context cannot hold a full CV plus a job spec plus a rubric Materially higher error rate on structured extraction
Capabilities
Modalities	text	text
Context window	128K	16.385K
Variants	Base (8K), Turbo (128K), 32K	Turbo (16K), Instruct
On HumanLike	Not yet	Not yet
Published benchmarks
MMLU	86.4%Published	70%Published

Cost per hour assumes 150 wpm and a 40% AI speaking share. Hover a figure for its full derivation.