Text Embedding 3 Small API pricing
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What Text Embedding 3 Small costs in practice
Text Embedding 3 Small is priced at $0.02 per million input tokens and free per million output tokens and no separately published prompt-cache rate. Against the median priced chat model ($0.5/1M in), this sits at 25.00× cheaper.
Monthly cost examples
Assuming 1,200 prompt + 400 completion tokens per request unless noted, billed 30 days a month and without cache hits.
| Workload | Cost / month | Cost / day |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 requests/day | $0.72 | $0.024 |
| 10,000 requests/day | $7.2 | $0.24 |
| 100,000 requests/day | $72 | $2.4 |
| 1M summaries/month | $160 | $5.33 |
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Capabilities
Cheaper alternatives
Ranked by blended cost (3× input + 1× output) — cheaper, but check context and capabilities before switching.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini Exp 1114 | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 1.0M |
| 2 | Gemini Exp 1206 | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 2.1M |
| 3 | Gemma 3 27b It | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 131K |
| 4 | Gemma 4 26b A4b It | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 262K |
| 5 | Gemma 4 31b It | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 262K |
| 6 | Learnlm 1.5 Pro Experimental | Google Gemini | free | free | — | 33K |
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Frequently asked
› How much does Text Embedding 3 Small cost per 1,000 tokens?
About $0.00002 for input and free for output tokens, based on the per-million rates on this page.
› Is Text Embedding 3 Small cheaper than other models?
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› How often is Text Embedding 3 Small's price checked?
The dataset was last refreshed 2026-09-13 13:40 UTC. Providers can change pricing at any time — verify with OpenAI before committing to a budget.