Replacement for gpt-3.5-turbo-0301: price, context, and code

Replacement for gpt-3.5-turbo-0301: what changes when you switch

The official replacement is gpt-3.5-turbo. gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 shut down on 2024-09-13 per OpenAI's deprecation page (checked 2026-10-17). On the labeled example of 10 million input tokens and 2 million output tokens, gpt-3.5-turbo costs $8 a month, lower than $190 for gpt-3.5-turbo-0301.

Official replacement. Full diff page

gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 to | (gpt-3.5-turbo)

Some values not published Checked 2026-10-17.

Price per 1M tokens

Price comparison. Example monthly cost for 10M input tokens and 2M output tokens. Labeled example, not a bill.
Field	Old	New	Change
Input	$15	$0.5	-96.7% (lower)
Output	$20	$1.5	-92.5% (lower)
Cached input	Not published	Not published	Not published
Example monthly cost	$190	$8	Example only

Context and max output

Token limits
Limit	Old	New	Change
Context window	Not published	16,385	Not published
Max output	Not published	4,096	Not published

Capabilities that differ

No differing capability values are published for both models.

API changes

No parameter change is listed on the official pages we checked. The sample below only swaps the model id.

Code

python typescript curl

python before

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo-0301",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)

python after

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)

typescript before

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI();
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "gpt-3.5-turbo-0301",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});

typescript after

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI();
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "gpt-3.5-turbo",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});

curl before

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"gpt-3.5-turbo-0301","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

curl after

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"gpt-3.5-turbo","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Checklist

Read the shutdown date for gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 on the linked official page.
Point your requests at gpt-3.5-turbo.
Re-check price, context, and parameters on the provider pages linked here.
Ship the change before the published shutdown date.

Related models

Questions

What is the replacement for gpt-3.5-turbo-0301?

Is gpt-3.5-turbo cheaper than gpt-3.5-turbo-0301?

Yes. The labeled example monthly cost is $190 for the old model and $8 for the replacement.

Does gpt-3.5-turbo have a bigger context window than gpt-3.5-turbo-0301?

Context window sizes are not both published on the official pages we checked.

Sources