Embed v1 4b pricing.
Prices checked
Embed v1 4b costs $0.03 per million input tokens from Perplexity; the cheapest price is $0.03 at Perplexity, checked .
Perplexity's own price
Perplexity
per million input tokens
70% 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 4b
- 1
33k context here
$0.03/M tokens - 2
per million input tokens
$0.03/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 4b's cheapest price, $0.03 per million input tokens.
Qwen3 Embedding 8B
33k context · open weights · 14 providers
DeepInfra$0.01/M tokens67% lesstext-embedding-3-small
8k context · closed weights · 9 providers
OpenAI$0.02/M tokens33% lessMistral Embed
8k context · closed weights · 3 providers
Mistral AI$0.10/M tokens233% moreGemini Embedding 2
8k context · closed weights · 6 providers
Google$0.20/M tokens567% more
Frequently asked
- Who sells Embed v1 4b cheapest?
- Perplexity, at $0.03 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 4b 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 4b 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 4b compare with other embedding models?
- At $0.03 per million input tokens, Perplexity's own price is 70% below the typical $0.10 across the 14 embedding models we track.
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