GPT-3.5 Turbo
text model · Retired
OpenAIThe model that started it all, and the cost floor everything is measured against.
Fit and price
Recruitment fit
22
Per hour
$0.187
Per minute
$0.0031
30-min interview
$0.094
About
GPT-3.5 Turbo is the baseline of this catalogue. It is genuinely cheap and genuinely fast, and for narrow classification it is still occasionally the right tool. For anything requiring judgement it is not competitive, and OpenAI has retired it from new deployments.
- Tool use
- JSON mode
Strengths and watch-outs
Strengths
- Very cheap
- Very fast
Watch out for
- 16K context too small
- High extraction error rate
Best for Nothing candidate-facing
2 variants
Turbo (16K)Balanced
Final and best 3.5 release.
1×
rel. cost
34
quality
InstructFast
Completion-style, not chat.
3×
rel. cost
28
quality
The numbers
Published benchmarks
- MMLU
- 70%Published