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Every host for GPT-3.5 Turbo

Per 1M tokens
HostBlendedInputOutputCachedPrecisionUptime
Azure
$0.75
$0.50$1.50———
OpenAI
$0.75
$0.50$1.50——100.0%
Blended price: three input tokens for every output token, per 1M tokens.

Cheapest price over time

Per 1M tokens
Cheapest input and output price for GPT-3.5 Turbo over timeFree$0.50$1.00$1.5023 Oct23 Oct24 Oct$1.50$0.50
  • Input
  • Output
The cheapest list price at any host on each day it changed.

What your workload costs

A month, at every host
Cheapest a month
$300.00
Azure
  • Azure
    $300.00
  • OpenAI
    $300.00

Rent GPUs or pay per token?

Break-even
Renting the GPUs
$16,878/mo
Break-even volume
22.5B tokens/mo
Needed around the clock
8.6K tok/s

8 × H100 cost $16,878 a month. The cheapest API (Azure) charges $0.75 per 1M blended tokens, so the GPUs only pay off above 22.5B tokens a month: the box must serve 8.6K tokens a second, every second.

GPU price: cheapest on-demand offer per GPU-hour × 730 hours. No throughput is assumed: it depends on the model size, precision, batch size and serving software, so measure yours. Power, storage, egress and engineering time are not included.

LMArena rating over time

Text leaderboard
LMArena text rating of GPT-3.5 Turbo over time1,0901,1001,1101,12020 Oct20 Oct21 Oct1,125

Rated about the same, by price

Blended, per 1M tokens

Quality data: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0). Prices: OpenRouter, LiteLLM (MIT), provider pages. List prices in US dollars before discounts and taxes; other currencies converted at the European Central Bank reference rate. The figures on these pages are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.