API pricing per million tokens
text-embedding-3-smallChecked 5h ago
- Input
- $0.02
- per 1M, list
- Output
- Free
- per 1M tokens
- Cached input
- n/a
- no batch tier listed
- Context
- 8K
- released Oct 30, 2025
Where to buy it (2)
Azure AI Foundrydefault region$0.02 / Free$0.015 blended
OpenAI (list)the lab's own API$0.02 / Free$0.015 blended
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $2.00 direct.
Helicone$2.00+0%
Kong AI Gateway$2.00+0%
LiteLLM$2.00+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$2.00+0%
AWS Bedrock$2.00+0%
Google Vertex AI$2.00+0%
Databricks Mosaic AI$2.00+0%
Hugging Face Inference$2.00+0%
Cloudflare AI Gateway$2.10+5%
Requesty$2.10+5%
Eden AI$2.11+5.5%
OpenRouter$2.11+5.5%
Snowflake Cortex AI$2.40+20%
Martian Gatewayn/a
Portkeyn/a
TrueFoundry AI Gatewayn/a
IBM watsonx.ain/a
OCI Generative AIn/a
NVIDIA NIMn/a
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About Text Embedding 3 Small
text-embedding-3-small is OpenAI's improved, more performant version of the ada embedding model.
Takes text in and returns embeddings. First listed Sep 24, 2026. Blended price $0.015 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output.
Questions
How much does Text Embedding 3 Small cost?
$0.02 per million input tokens and Free per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Text Embedding 3 Small?
8K tokens.
Where is Text Embedding 3 Small cheapest?
Of 2 routes tracked, Azure AI Foundry is cheapest at $0.02 input and Free output per million tokens.
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