Is o4-mini or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct cheaper?

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($2.00 vs $4.40 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, o4-mini or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct?

o4-mini has the larger context window (200K tokens).

o4-mini vs GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while o4-mini offers a larger context window. Choose o4-mini or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	o4-mini	GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
Provider	Vercel AI Gateway	Vercel AI Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$1.10	$1.50
Output / 1M tokens	$4.40	$2.00
Context window	200K	8K
Parameters	—	20B
Open weights	No	No
Released	Apr 2025	Sep 2023

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