text-embedding-ada-002 pricing
text-embedding-ada-002 from OpenAI costs $0.100 per 1M input tokens and not published per 1M output tokens.
API id text-embedding-ada-002 · OpenAI · source · updated 2026-09-26 · embedding
This is an embedding model. Its pricing is not comparable to chat models, and it is excluded from the site's cheapest-model rankings for that reason.
$0.100
Input / 1M tokens
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Output / 1M tokens
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Cached input / 1M
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Context window
text-embedding-ada-002 specifications
- Provider
- OpenAI
- API id
text-embedding-ada-002- Model type
- embedding
- Context window
- — tokens
- Max output
- not published
- Currency
- USD
- Price source
- First-party
- Last checked
- 2026-09-26
What text-embedding-ada-002 costs in practice
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 1,000 | 500 | $0.0001 |
| Document summary | 50,000 | 2,000 | $0.0050 |
| 1M tokens in, 200K out | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | $0.10 |
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-ada-002 cost per 1M tokens?
- text-embedding-ada-002 costs $0.100 per 1M input tokens and not published per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
- What is text-embedding-ada-002's context window?
- OpenAI does not publish a context window for text-embedding-ada-002 on its pricing page.
- Is there a cheaper OpenAI model than text-embedding-ada-002?
- Yes. omni-moderation-latest is free per 1M input tokens versus $0.100 for text-embedding-ada-002.
- Where does this text-embedding-ada-002 price come from?
- Directly from OpenAI's published pricing page, re-read every day and normalized to USD per 1,000,000 tokens.