Is GPT-5 Chat or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct cheaper?

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($2.00 vs $10.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, GPT-5 Chat or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct?

GPT-5 Chat has the larger context window (128K tokens).

GPT-5 Chat vs GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while GPT-5 Chat offers a larger context window. Choose GPT-5 Chat or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	GPT-5 Chat	GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
Provider	Vercel AI Gateway	Vercel AI Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$1.25	$1.50
Output / 1M tokens	$10.00	$2.00
Context window	128K	8K
Parameters	—	20B
Open weights	No	No
Released	Aug 2025	Sep 2023

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