Azure OpenAI exposes GPT-3.5 Turbo through model ID gpt-3.5-turbo. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
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Quick Start
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- 2Use the Azure OpenAI SDK or REST API to call
gpt-3.5-turbo— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
pip install openaiAZURE_OPENAI_API_KEYgpt-3.5-turbogpt-3.5-turbo is your Azure deployment name, not the underlying model name. Deployment names are set when you deploy a model in Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI Studio.
import os
from openai import AzureOpenAI
client = AzureOpenAI(
azure_endpoint=os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT"], # e.g. https://{resource}.openai.azure.com
api_key=os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY"],
api_version="2024-02-01"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-3.5-turbo", # your deployment name
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Pricing on Azure OpenAI
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.50 |
| Output tokens | $1.50 |
Capabilities
About GPT-3.5 Turbo
GPT-3.5 Turbo is an advanced language model developed by OpenAI, showcasing significant advancements over GPT-3 and GPT-3.5. As the engine behind the popular ChatGPT application, it excels in tasks like text generation, translation, question answering, summarization, and code generation. This model employs Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to enhance accuracy and produce policy-optimized responses. Despite its prowess, it has a knowledge cutoff of September 2021 and can demonstrate biases from its training data. Occasionally, it may generate incorrect or nonsensical content, known as "hallucination," and is sensitive to input phrasing variations.