GPT-3.5 Turbo (Instruct) — Available Providers
Last refreshed 2026-05-11. Next refresh: weekly.
Compare pricing and deployment options across 4 providers.
Monthly cost ranking
Ranked for 1M input and 0.2M output tokens per month. Cache and batch discounts are applied only when the provider row has sourced prices.
Traffic profile
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Cost bars
Cheapest
Azure OpenAI
$1.90 at the selected traffic profile.
Batch jobs
OpenAI API
$0.75 / $1.00 batch pricing is sourced for queued workloads.
Recipe-ready
Azure OpenAI
Install, auth, and call snippets are available from curated provider snippet data.
Provider matrix
Region, SLA, and compliance rows are hidden until curated source fields exist.| Provider | Profile cost | Input / Output | Batch | Deploy | Recipe | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure OpenAI hyperscaler | $1.90 | $1.50 / $2.00 | - | Serverless | Snippets | |
| OpenAI API lab | $1.90 | $1.50 / $2.00 | $0.75 / $1.00 | Serverless | Snippets | |
| OpenRouter aggregator | $1.90 | $1.50 / $2.00 | - | Serverless | Docs only | |
| Salesforce Einstein Generative AI platform | Not enough pricing | - / - | - | Serverless | Docs only |
GPT-3.5 Turbo (Instruct) operational data note: this page ranks sourced token, cache, and batch fields only. Region, SLA, compliance, and latency claims are intentionally omitted until a curated matrix is added.