text-embedding-3-small pricing
text-embedding-3-small from OpenAI costs $0.020 per 1M input tokens and not published per 1M output tokens.
API id text-embedding-3-small · OpenAI · source · updated 2026-08-11
$0.020
Input / 1M tokens
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Output / 1M tokens
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Cached input / 1M
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Context window
What text-embedding-3-small costs in practice
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 1,000 | 500 | $0.0000 |
| Document summary | 50,000 | 2,000 | $0.0010 |
| 1M tokens in, 200K out | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | $0.02 |
Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.
Common questions
- How much does text-embedding-3-small cost per 1M tokens?
- text-embedding-3-small costs $0.020 per 1M input tokens and not published per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
- What is text-embedding-3-small's context window?
- OpenAI does not publish a context window for text-embedding-3-small on its pricing page.
- Is there a cheaper OpenAI model than text-embedding-3-small?
- Yes. omni-moderation-latest is free per 1M input tokens versus $0.020 for text-embedding-3-small.
- Where does this text-embedding-3-small price come from?
- Directly from OpenAI's published pricing page, re-read every day and normalized to USD per 1,000,000 tokens.
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