GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI's original cost-efficient chat model — now superseded
Verdict
Fully superseded by GPT-4o mini at similar cost and much higher quality. Avoid for new projects. Migrate to gpt-4o-mini or a modern open-weight alternative.
Other Text Generation & Reasoning
- Claude 3.5 SonnetProduction
Anthropic's proven workhorse with 200K context and computer use
- Claude 4 SonnetProduction
Anthropic's latest — best-in-class coding, reasoning, and safety
- Command R+Stable
Cohere's enterprise model optimised for RAG and tool use
- DeepSeek R1Production
Open-weight chain-of-thought reasoning rivalling GPT-o1
- DeepSeek V3Production
685B MoE model trained for $5.5M — remarkable efficiency
- GLM-5Experimental
Zhipu AI's 754B frontier model from China's leading AI lab

