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OpenAI · gpt-3.5-turbo

Provider prices, cheapest first

Price comparison

Official (cash): Input 0.5 / output 1.5 USD/million tokensOpenAI · 10-24
Lowest inference provider (cash): Input 0.5 / output 1.5 USD/million tokensOpenRouter · Aggregator · 10-24
Lowest relay (credit): 0.25 CNY credit/million total tokensaifast.site "default" · 10-23

Official and inference-provider prices are cash; relay prices are site credit (USD credit or CNY credit), a different unit, compared separately. Relay prices are per million total tokens at 75% input and 25% output.

All official and inference price observations

OpenAI · gpt-3.5-turbo official price: input 0.5, output 1.5 USD per million tokens (OpenAI, observed 2026-10-24). Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.5, output 1.5 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: aifast.site, group "default" 0.25 CNY_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-23). 80 sites have comparable prices; 140 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output. Conditions: Standard processing · documentSection: Flagship models · processingMode: standard

Price ranges per million tokens

Official cash prices · Lowest 0.75 · median 0.75 · highest 0.75 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens

Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 0.75 · median 0.75 · highest 0.75 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens

Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.21875 · median 0.75 · highest 3.75 · 38 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit

Relay CNY credit prices · Lowest 0.25 · median 1.4614 · highest 8.4231 · 13 quotes CNY / per million tokens, site credit

Official price

Provider	Tariff	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Unit	Observed	Conditions and source
OpenAI	Standard	0.5	1.5	—	—	USD / 1M tokens	2026-10-24	Standard processing · documentSection: Flagship models · processingMode: standard Full price conditions { "sourceUnit": null, "sourceAmounts": null, "conditions": [], "contextTier": null, "processingMode": "standard", "conditionNotes": [ "documentSection: Flagship models", "processingMode: standard" ], "effectiveFrom": null, "effectiveUntil": null } Official source

Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.

Inference providers

Provider	Tariff	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Unit	Observed	Conditions and source	vs official
OpenRouter · Aggregator	Standard	0.5	1.5	—	—	USD / 1M tokens	2026-10-24	Full price conditions { "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN", "sourceAmounts": { "input": "0.0000005", "output": "0.0000015" }, "conditions": [], "contextTier": null, "processingMode": null, "conditionNotes": [], "effectiveFrom": null, "effectiveUntil": null } Official source

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OpenRouter · Aggregator

Standard

0.5

1.5

—

USD / 1M tokens

2026-10-24

Full price conditions

{
  "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN",
  "sourceAmounts": {
    "input": "0.0000005",
    "output": "0.0000015"
  },
  "conditions": [],
  "contextTier": null,
  "processingMode": null,
  "conditionNotes": [],
  "effectiveFrom": null,
  "effectiveUntil": null
}

Official source

Other tariffs and prices to review

Inference providers

Provider	Tariff	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Unit	Observed	Conditions and source
OpenRouter · Aggregator	Batch	0.25	0.75	—	—	USD / 1M tokens	2026-10-24	OpenRouter batch variant · Additional web_search price 0.01 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter) Full price conditions { "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN", "sourceAmounts": { "input": "0.00000025", "output": "0.00000075" }, "conditions": [ "OpenRouter batch variant" ], "contextTier": null, "processingMode": null, "conditionNotes": [ "Additional web_search price 0.01 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)" ], "effectiveFrom": null, "effectiveUntil": null } Official source

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OpenRouter · Aggregator

Batch

0.25

0.75

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USD / 1M tokens

2026-10-24

OpenRouter batch variant · Additional web_search price 0.01 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)

Full price conditions

{
  "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN",
  "sourceAmounts": {
    "input": "0.00000025",
    "output": "0.00000075"
  },
  "conditions": [
    "OpenRouter batch variant"
  ],
  "contextTier": null,
  "processingMode": null,
  "conditionNotes": [
    "Additional web_search price 0.01 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)"
  ],
  "effectiveFrom": null,
  "effectiveUntil": null
}

Official source

Older official and inference provider prices

Earlier price observations and their original conditions

Official price

Provider	Tariff	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Unit	Observed	Conditions and source
OpenAI	Standard	0.5	1.5	—	—	USD / 1M tokens	2026-10-17	Standard processing · documentSection: Flagship models · processingMode: standard Full price conditions { "sourceUnit": null, "sourceAmounts": null, "conditions": [], "contextTier": null, "processingMode": "standard", "conditionNotes": [ "documentSection: Flagship models", "processingMode: standard" ], "effectiveFrom": null, "effectiveUntil": null } Official source

Inference providers

Provider	Tariff	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Unit	Observed	Conditions and source
OpenRouter · Aggregator	Batch	0.25	0.75	—	—	USD / 1M tokens	2026-10-17	OpenRouter batch variant · Additional web_search price 0.01 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter) Full price conditions { "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN", "sourceAmounts": { "input": "0.00000025", "output": "0.00000075" }, "conditions": [ "OpenRouter batch variant" ], "contextTier": null, "processingMode": null, "conditionNotes": [ "Additional web_search price 0.01 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)" ], "effectiveFrom": null, "effectiveUntil": null } Official source
OpenRouter · Aggregator	Standard	0.5	1.5	—	—	USD / 1M tokens	2026-10-17	Full price conditions { "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN", "sourceAmounts": { "input": "0.0000005", "output": "0.0000015" }, "conditions": [], "contextTier": null, "processingMode": null, "conditionNotes": [], "effectiveFrom": null, "effectiveUntil": null } Official source

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OpenRouter · Aggregator

Batch

0.25

0.75

—

USD / 1M tokens

2026-10-17

OpenRouter batch variant · Additional web_search price 0.01 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)

Full price conditions

{
  "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN",
  "sourceAmounts": {
    "input": "0.00000025",
    "output": "0.00000075"
  },
  "conditions": [
    "OpenRouter batch variant"
  ],
  "contextTier": null,
  "processingMode": null,
  "conditionNotes": [
    "Additional web_search price 0.01 USD (per unit as declared by OpenRouter)"
  ],
  "effectiveFrom": null,
  "effectiveUntil": null
}

Official source

OpenRouter · Aggregator

Standard

0.5

1.5

—

USD / 1M tokens

2026-10-17

Full price conditions

{
  "sourceUnit": "USD_PER_TOKEN",
  "sourceAmounts": {
    "input": "0.0000005",
    "output": "0.0000015"
  },
  "conditions": [],
  "contextTier": null,
  "processingMode": null,
  "conditionNotes": [],
  "effectiveFrom": null,
  "effectiveUntil": null
}

Official source

Unit: CNY credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.

Blended price = input × 75% + output × 25%, without cache.

Price range: lowest 0.25 · median 1.4614 · highest 8.4231 (13 quotes, CNY credits per million total tokens)

sites have comparable prices80140 sites list this model; approximately 16 operators

Lowest input price0.2CNY credits / 1M

Median of each provider’s lowest price1.35CNY credits / 1M

Relays

Prices below are in site credit, not cash.

#	Provider	Plan / conditions	Input ↑CNY credits / 1M	Output CNY credits / 1M	Cache readCNY credits / 1M	BlendedCNY credits / 1M	Details
Recent price
01	aifast.siteAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:34 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	default Default group, 0.4 yuan per dao (US dollar) [machine translation]Original: 默认分组，0.4元一刀 Operator pending verification	0.2	0.4	—	0.25Median price ÷ this price: 5.8×	Full prices and sources
02	i.v1api.ccAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:44 UTC Collected this cycle View 3 plans	deepseek Deepseek stable channel, Chinese model, strong coding ability, very high value for money, 50% of list price, rate multiplier 0.6 [machine translation]Original: Deepseek稳定渠道，国产模型，代码能力强，性价比极高，5折，倍率0.6 Operator pending verification	0.3	0.9	—	0.45Median price ÷ this price: 3.2×	Full prices and sources
03	pro.gemai.ccAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:48 UTC Collected this cycle View 3 plans	Azure All Azure group [machine translation]Original: Azure 分组 Operator pending verification	0.35	0.7	—	0.4375Median price ÷ this price: 3.3×	Full prices and sources
04	airouter.service.itstudio.clubAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:35 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	Gongyi (public-welfare) group [machine translation]Group on site: 公益分组 Gongyi (public-welfare) group [machine translation]Original: 公益分组 Operator pending verification	0.5	1	—	0.625Median price ÷ this price: 2.3×	Full prices and sources
04	paw.v1chat.ccAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:48 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	default Standard channel, Gemini stability average, about 2.5/10 of the official price [machine translation]Original: 标准渠道，Gemini稳定性一般，约官方2.5折 Operator pending verification	0.5	1	—	0.625Median price ÷ this price: 2.3×	Full prices and sources
06	vakv.cnAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:50 UTC Collected this cycle View 4 plans 1 more site of the same company api.vakv.cn Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding.	1848 1848 Operator pending verification	0.625	1.875	0	0.9375Median price ÷ this price: 1.6×	Full prices and sources
07	ai.soruxgpt.comAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:34 UTC Collected this cycle View 3 plans	azure-low Azure low-price group [machine translation]Original: Azure 低价分组 Operator pending verification	1.35	1.7955	—	1.4614Median price ÷ this price: 1×	Full prices and sources
08	api.147ai.cnAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:35 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	az Azure key \| OpenAl all models [machine translation]Original: Azure key \| OpenAl全模型 Operator pending verification	1.5	4.5	—	2.25Median price ÷ this price: 0.6×	Full prices and sources
09	www.ggwk1.onlineAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:51 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	Official relay, unmoderated, high IQ [machine translation]Group on site: 官转无审高智商 Official relay unmoderated high-IQ 4x multiplier [machine translation]Original: 官转无审高智商-4倍率 Operator pending verification	2	4	—	2.5Median price ÷ this price: 0.6×	Full prices and sources
10	hy88.myAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:44 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	gpt_azure GPT premium quality group [machine translation]Original: GPT高质量分组 Operator pending verification	2.25	6.75	—	3.375Median price ÷ this price: 0.4×	Full prices and sources
11	api.34ku.comAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:35 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	default Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification	3.9	10.4	—	5.525Median price ÷ this price: 0.3×	Full prices and sources
12	proaiapi.techAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:48 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	Official relay [machine translation]Group on site: 官转 Official relay Gemini+GPT+Claude (strong stability, high quality, top choice for advanced tasks, formal projects, enterprise engineering, work, commercial use, research testing) [machine translation]Original: 官转Gemini+GPT+Claude （稳定性强，质量高，适合高级任务、正式项目、企业工程、工作、商用、研究测试首选） Operator pending verification	5.2	10.4	—	6.5Median price ÷ this price: 0.2×	Full prices and sources
13	api.tacklekey.comAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:39 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	default Name on site: openai/gpt-3.5-turbo Default group Operator pending verification	5.6154	16.846	—	8.4231Median price ÷ this price: 0.2×	Full prices and sources
Older price
01	hboom.aiAsk or discussCollected: 16 Oct 2026, 07:46 UTC Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 1 plans	GPT-Mid GPT-Mid Operator pending verification	2.38	7.14	—	3.57Median price ÷ this price: 0.4×	Full prices and sources
Flagged · not ranked · Recent price
—	zhangsan.yunAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:52 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	image-2 group [machine translation]Group on site: image-2分组 image-2 image generation [machine translation]Original: image-2生图 Note: far from other providers’ prices. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification	0.5625	0.05625	—	0.43594Median price ÷ this price: 3.4×	Full prices and sources
—	api.ccode.vipAsk or discussCollected: 23 Oct 2026, 23:36 UTC Collected this cycle View 1 plans	OpenAi Azure OpenAi Azure Note: number precision issue. This price is not ranked or counted. Operator pending verification	1.05	3.2625	—	1.6031Median price ÷ this price: 0.9×	Full prices and sources

Special groups · 1 rows · not ranked

These plans are marked as test, internal, disabled, gated by top-up or membership, or have a near-zero ratio. They may not be purchasable or stable, so they are listed separately and left out of the ranking and statistics.

test or debug group: 1 rows

ai-api.loft.games · test · gpt-3.5-turbo · Input 0.24 / Output 0.72 CNY credits / 1M

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How this ranking works

All per-token prices: 93,968 prices from 854 sites (about 751 companies). 84,786 are ranked, from 838 sites (about 736 companies); 9,182 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-24.

This model has 464 recorded prices; 240 can be compared directly (236 ranked, 4 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 123, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 32, billed per request or another unit 20, new price under review; showing the previous one 16, ratio looks unset 12, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 12, display unit not confirmed 4

28 recent · 1 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.

Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.

“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.

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FAQ

Which API is cheapest for OpenAI · gpt-3.5-turbo?

aifast.site, group "default", 0.25 CNY credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-23. 80 sites have comparable prices.

What is the official price for OpenAI · gpt-3.5-turbo?

Input 0.5, output 1.5 USD per million tokens, checked 2026-10-24. Lowest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.5, output 1.5 USD per million tokens.

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