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OpenAI · gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct

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OpenAI · gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct official price: input 1.50, output 2.00 USD per million tokens (OpenAI, observed 2026-10-17). Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 1.5, output 2 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: go.sbgpt.site, group "az-3" 0.9 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 42 sites have comparable prices; 65 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.

Price ranges per million tokens

Official cash prices · Lowest 1.625 · median 1.625 · highest 1.625 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens

Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 1.625 · median 1.625 · highest 1.625 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens

USD_CREDIT · Lowest 0.9 · median 3.75 · highest 37.5 · 78 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit

CNY_CREDIT · Lowest 0.28125 · median 4.59374971875 · highest 18.25 · 4 quotes CNY / per million tokens, site credit

Official price

ProviderInputOutputCache readCache writeUnitObservedConditions and source
OpenAI1.502.00——USD / 1M tokens
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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

ProviderInputOutputCache readCache writeUnitObservedConditions and sourcevs official
OpenRouter · Aggregator1.52——USD / 1M tokens
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Input 0% · Output 0%

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

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

Price range: lowest 0.9 · median 3.75 · highest 37.5 (78 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)

sites have comparable prices4265 sites list this model; approximately 28 operators
Lowest input price0.72USD credits / 1M
Median of each provider’s lowest price1.5USD credits / 1M

Relays

Prices below are in site credit, not cash.

#ProviderPlan / conditionsInput ↑USD credits / 1MOutput USD credits / 1MCache readUSD credits / 1MBlendedUSD credits / 1MDetails
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az-3
az no moderation all models-0.48x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: az无审核全模型-0.48倍率
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0.721.44—0.9Median price ÷ this price: 4.166666666666666666666666666666666667×Full prices and sources
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No moderation az-0.38 [machine translation]Group on site: 无审核az-0.38
Special price no moderation az-0.48x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: 特价无审核az-0.48倍率
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0.721.44—0.9Median price ÷ this price: 4.166666666666666666666666666666666667×Full prices and sources
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No moderation az-0.4x rate multiplier [machine translation]Group on site: 无审核az-0.4倍率
No moderation AZ, no o1-0.48x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: 无审核AZ无o1-0.48倍率
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0.721.44—0.9Median price ÷ this price: 4.166666666666666666666666666666666667×Full prices and sources
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No moderation az-2 [machine translation]Group on site: 无审核az-2
No-moderation AZ, moderated o1-0.58x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: 无审核AZ有审核o1-0.58倍率
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0.871.74—1.0875Median price ÷ this price: 3.448275862068965517241379310344827586×Full prices and sources
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No moderation AZ [machine translation]Group on site: 无审核AZ
No moderation AZ-0.6x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: 无审核AZ-0.6倍率
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0.91.8—1.125Median price ÷ this price: 3.333333333333333333333333333333333333×Full prices and sources
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Default group, AZ channel plus official reverse-engineered channel for some models, AZ first, reverse-engineered as fallback, auto-tuning (default) [machine translation]Original: 默认分组,AZ渠道加部分模型官方逆向渠道,优先AZ,保底逆向,自动调优(default)
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1.352.7—1.6875Median price ÷ this price: 2.222222222222222222222222222222222222×Full prices and sources
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⭐ Recommended | all-model automatic load optimization, highest availability [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 推荐 | 全模型自动负载优化最高可用性
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1.51.995—1.62375Median price ÷ this price: 2.309468822170900692840646651270207852×Full prices and sources
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⭐ Recommended | all-model automatic load optimization [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 推荐 | 全模型自动负载优化
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1.51.995—1.62375Median price ÷ this price: 2.309468822170900692840646651270207852×Full prices and sources
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1.51.995—1.62375Median price ÷ this price: 2.309468822170900692840646651270207852×Full prices and sources
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tieta
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1.51.995—1.62375Median price ÷ this price: 2.309468822170900692840646651270207852×Full prices and sources
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default
⭐ Recommended | all-model automatic load optimization [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 推荐 | 全模型自动负载优化
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1.51.995—1.62375Median price ÷ this price: 2.309468822170900692840646651270207852×Full prices and sources
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⭐ Recommended | all-model automatic load optimization [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 推荐 | 全模型自动负载优化
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1.51.995—1.62375Median price ÷ this price: 2.309468822170900692840646651270207852×Full prices and sources
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Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组
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1.52—1.625Median price ÷ this price: 2.30769230769248520710059172963131543×Full prices and sources
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GPT relay [machine translation]Group on site: GPT 中转
GPT relay [machine translation]Original: GPT 中转
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1.52—1.625Median price ÷ this price: 2.30769230769248520710059172963131543×Full prices and sources
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gpt plus
gpt plus
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1.52—1.625Median price ÷ this price: 2.30769230769248520710059172963131543×Full prices and sources
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gpt pro
gpt pro
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1.52—1.625Median price ÷ this price: 2.30769230769248520710059172963131543×Full prices and sources
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✨az official relay + others, 1 yuan per dao (US dollar) [machine translation]Original: ✨az官转+其他模型, 1元一刀
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1.52—1.625Median price ÷ this price: 2.30769230769248520710059172963131543×Full prices and sources
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svip
Pure Azure [machine translation]Original: 纯Azure
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1.53—1.875Median price ÷ this price: 2×Full prices and sources
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Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组
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1.53—1.875Median price ÷ this price: 2×Full prices and sources
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Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组
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1.53—1.875Median price ÷ this price: 2×Full prices and sources
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default-1 rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: default-1倍率
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1.53—1.875Median price ÷ this price: 2×Full prices and sources
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svip
Pure Azure [machine translation]Original: 纯Azure
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1.53—1.875Median price ÷ this price: 2×Full prices and sources
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azpro
More az concurrency group (azpro) [machine translation]Original: 更多的az并发分组(azpro)
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1.83.6—2.25Median price ÷ this price: 1.666666666666666666666666666666666667×Full prices and sources
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az-12
az-12-1.2x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: az-12-1.2倍率
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1.83.6—2.25Median price ÷ this price: 1.666666666666666666666666666666666667×Full prices and sources
How this ranking works

All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.

This model has 176 recorded prices; 97 can be compared directly. Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 54, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 16, ratio looks unset 3, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 1

85 recent · 7 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-instruct?

go.sbgpt.site, group "az-3", 0.9 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 42 sites have comparable prices.

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

Input 1.5, output 2 USD per million tokens, checked 2026-10-17. Lowest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 1.5, output 2 USD per million tokens. Input 0% higher than official.

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