gpt 3.5 turbo instruct
by OpenAIChatdeprecated 2026-09-28
GPT-3.5 Turbo offers a balance between cost and performance.
- Context
- 8.2K tokens
- Max output
- 4,096 tokens
- Parameters
- 20B (total or active not stated)
- Released
- 2023-09-28
- Weights
- Closed
openai/gpt-3-5-turbo-instruct · also seen as azure/gpt-35-turbo-instruct
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2023-09-28
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 8,192 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 4,096
- Providers
- 3 + 4 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $1.50 in at Kilo Gateway, via gateway, fees not verified
More details
- Last updated
- 2023-09-28
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2021-08
- Parameters
- 20B (total or active not stated)
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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