text-embedding-3-small pricing.
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text-embedding-3-small costs $0.02 per million input tokens from OpenAI; the cheapest price is $0.02 at OpenAI, checked .
OpenAI's own price
OpenAI
per million input tokens
80% below the typical price of the 14 embedding models we track.
Cheapest price
OpenAI
per million input tokens
Nobody sells it for less than OpenAI with a reason we can point at.
Every provider selling text-embedding-3-small
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SAP AI Core
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$0.02/M tokens - 9
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$0.02/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 OpenAI'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.
- Costs more
- Sold by someone else for more than the maker charges.
Similar models
Embedding models from other labs, nearest in price first. Each percentage is against text-embedding-3-small's cheapest price, $0.02 per million input tokens.
Qwen3 Embedding 8B
33k context · open weights · 14 providers
DeepInfra$0.01/M tokens50% lessBGE M3
8k context · open weights · 1 provider
DigitalOcean Gradient$0.02/M tokensSame priceMistral Embed
8k context · closed weights · 3 providers
Mistral AI$0.10/M tokens400% moreGemini Embedding 2
8k context · closed weights · 6 providers
Google$0.20/M tokens900% more
Frequently asked
- Who sells text-embedding-3-small cheapest?
- OpenAI, at $0.02 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 text-embedding-3-small 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 text-embedding-3-small open weights?
- No. OpenAI keeps the weights, so every price on this page is OpenAI's own or a resale of it.
- How does text-embedding-3-small compare with other embedding models?
- At $0.02 per million input tokens, OpenAI's own price is 80% below the typical $0.10 across the 14 embedding models we track.
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