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text-embedding-ada-002

openai·openai/text-embedding-ada-002·GA·Closed·text-embedding series·Embedding
Embedding model for semantic search, retrieval, clustering, and ranking pipelines

text-embedding-ada-002 by openai is offered by 4 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 3 of them. Its official list price is $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0 per 1M output tokens.

The context window is 8,192 tokens, with an output limit of 1,536 tokens. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2022-12.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Official price·OpenAI
$0.10 / $0
Blended $0.075 · Cache read —
Lowest paid·Azure Cognitive ServicesFirst-party
$0.10 / $0
Blended $0.075 · 1× spread
Context
8,192
Output limit
1,536
Knowledge cutoff
2022-12
Released / updated
2022-12-15 / 2022-12-15
Capabilities
ReasoningTool use? Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
Modalities
Text

Available at 4 providers3 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
Azure Cognitive ServicesFirst-party$0.10$0——8,1921,536
AzureFirst-party$0.10$0——8,1921,536
OpenAIOfficialFirst-party$0.10$0——8,1921,536
Vercel AI GatewayCloud————8,1921,536hostTable.undisclosed

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Your usage cost

1Azure Cognitive Services$20.00
2Azure$20.00
3OpenAI · Official$20.00
Switch to Azure Cognitive Services to save $0.00/mo (0%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.

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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$0.10$02026-08-052026-08-132026-08-05 · Input list $0.102026-08-06 · Input list $0.102026-08-07 · Input list $0.102026-08-08 · Input list $0.102026-08-09 · Input list $0.102026-08-10 · Input list $0.102026-08-11 · Input list $0.102026-08-12 · Input list $0.102026-08-13 · Input list $0.102026-08-05 · Output list $02026-08-06 · Output list $02026-08-07 · Output list $02026-08-08 · Output list $02026-08-09 · Output list $02026-08-10 · Output list $02026-08-11 · Output list $02026-08-12 · Output list $02026-08-13 · Output list $02026-08-05 · Min blended $0.0752026-08-06 · Min blended $0.0752026-08-07 · Min blended $0.0752026-08-08 · Min blended $0.0752026-08-09 · Min blended $0.0752026-08-10 · Min blended $0.0752026-08-11 · Min blended $0.0752026-08-12 · Min blended $0.0752026-08-13 · Min blended $0.075
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