gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct shut down on 2026-09-28 per OpenAI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-17). The official replacement is gpt-5.6-terra. On the labeled example of 10 million input tokens and 2 million output tokens, gpt-5.6-terra costs $44 a month, higher than $19 for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct.
retired
| Announced | 2025-09-26 |
|---|---|
| Deprecated | Not published |
| Shutdown | 2026-09-28 |
| Kind | exact |
See the replacement diff · OpenAI models
| Input price / 1M | $1.5 · source, checked 2026-10-17 |
|---|---|
| Output price / 1M | $2 · source, checked 2026-10-17 |
| Cached input / 1M | Not published |
| Context window | 4,096 · source, checked 2026-10-17 |
| Max output | 4,096 · source, checked 2026-10-17 |
| Reasoning | Not published |
| Vision | Not published |
| Tools | Not published |
gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct shut down on 2026-09-28 per OpenAI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-17). The official replacement is gpt-5.6-terra. On the labeled example of 10 million input tokens and 2 million output tokens, gpt-5.6-terra costs $44 a month, higher than $19 for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct.
The official replacement is gpt-5.6-terra.
gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct status is retired.
2026-09-28 | gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct | gpt-5.6-terra
Model ID: gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct | context window 4096 | max output 4096 | input $1.5 | output $2