OpenRouter exposes GPT-3.5 Turbo through model ID openai/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 OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call
openai/gpt-3.5-turbo— see the documentation for request format. - 3
Code Examples
Pricing on OpenRouter
| 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.