Embed v1 0.6b pricing.
Prices checked
Embed v1 0.6b costs 0.4¢ per million input tokens from Perplexity; the cheapest price is 0.4¢ at Perplexity, checked .
Perplexity's own price
Perplexity
per million input tokens
96% below the typical price of the 14 embedding models we track.
Cheapest price
Perplexity
per million input tokens
Nobody sells it for less than Perplexity with a reason we can point at.
Every provider selling Embed v1 0.6b
- 1
33k context here
0.4¢/M tokens - 2
per million input tokens
0.4¢/M tokens
How we count
Prices are per million input tokens; an embedding model writes no output, so there is no blend. A price below Perplexity's own is listed as cheapest only when the provider says why.
- Maker's price
- What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Same as maker
- Sold by someone else at the price the maker charges.
Similar models
Embedding models from other labs, nearest in price first. Each percentage is against Embed v1 0.6b's cheapest price, 0.4¢ per million input tokens.
Qwen3 Embedding 8B
33k context · open weights · 14 providers
DeepInfra$0.01/M tokens150% moreBGE M3
8k context · open weights · 1 provider
DigitalOcean Gradient$0.02/M tokens400% moretext-embedding-3-small
8k context · closed weights · 9 providers
OpenAI$0.02/M tokens400% moreMistral Embed
8k context · closed weights · 3 providers
Mistral AI$0.10/M tokens2400% more
Frequently asked
- Who sells Embed v1 0.6b cheapest?
- Perplexity, at 0.4¢ per million input tokens, checked 21 Oct 2026. What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API. Every other row is measured against it.
- Why is Embed v1 0.6b priced on input alone?
- An embedding model reads text and returns a vector, so there are no output tokens to bill. The price is per million tokens sent, which is why it is never compared with a chat model's blended price.
- Is Embed v1 0.6b open weights?
- No. Perplexity keeps the weights, so every price on this page is Perplexity's own or a resale of it.
- How does Embed v1 0.6b compare with other embedding models?
- At 0.4¢ per million input tokens, Perplexity's own price is 96% below the typical $0.10 across the 14 embedding models we track.
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