API PRICES
gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct
Provider prices, cheapest first
gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest relay: go.sbgpt.site, group "az-3" 0.9 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 41 sites have comparable prices; 41 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.9 · median 1.5 · highest 8.4375 · 10 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
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.
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 0.9 · median 1.5 · highest 8.4375 (10 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
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| 01 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | az-3 Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct az no moderation all models-0.48x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: az无审核全模型-0.48倍率 Operator pending verification | 0.72 | 1.44 | — | 0.9Median price ÷ this price: 1.7× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | No moderation az-0.38 [machine translation]Group on site: 无审核az-0.38 Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct Special price no moderation az-0.48x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: 特价无审核az-0.48倍率 Operator pending verification | 0.72 | 1.44 | — | 0.9Median price ÷ this price: 1.7× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | No moderation az-0.4x rate multiplier [machine translation]Group on site: 无审核az-0.4倍率 Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct No moderation AZ, no o1-0.48x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: 无审核AZ无o1-0.48倍率 Operator pending verification | 0.72 | 1.44 | — | 0.9Median price ÷ this price: 1.7× | Full prices and sources |
| 04 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | No moderation az-2 [machine translation]Group on site: 无审核az-2 Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct No-moderation AZ, moderated o1-0.58x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: 无审核AZ有审核o1-0.58倍率 Operator pending verification | 0.87 | 1.74 | — | 1.0875Median price ÷ this price: 1.4× | Full prices and sources |
| 05 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | No moderation AZ [machine translation]Group on site: 无审核AZ Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct No moderation AZ-0.6x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: 无审核AZ-0.6倍率 Operator pending verification | 0.9 | 1.8 | — | 1.125Median price ÷ this price: 1.3× | Full prices and sources |
| 06 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | default Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct default-1 rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: default-1倍率 Operator pending verification | 1.5 | 3 | — | 1.875Median price ÷ this price: 0.8× | Full prices and sources |
| 07 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | az-12 Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct az-12-1.2x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: az-12-1.2倍率 Operator pending verification | 1.8 | 3.6 | — | 2.25Median price ÷ this price: 0.7× | Full prices and sources |
| 08 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | ai-paint Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct ai-paint-1.5x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: ai-paint-1.5倍率 Operator pending verification | 2.25 | 4.5 | — | 2.8125Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 09 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | openai-official [machine translation]Group on site: openai-官 Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct openai-official-2x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: openai-官-2倍率 Operator pending verification | 3 | 6 | — | 3.75Median price ÷ this price: 0.4× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | go.sbgpt.siteAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 10 plans | Official openai [machine translation]Group on site: 官openai Name on site: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct Official openai-4.5x rate multiplier [machine translation]Original: 官openai-4.5倍率 Operator pending verification | 6.75 | 13.5 | — | 8.4375Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | 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 170 recorded prices; 96 can be compared directly. Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 51, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 16, ratio looks unset 1, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 1
10 recent · 0 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 gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct?
go.sbgpt.site, group "az-3", 0.9 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 41 sites have comparable prices.
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