Model prices / OpenAI / text-embedding-ada-002
text-embedding-ada-002
OpenAI · released 2022-12-15
The official API price of text-embedding-ada-002 is $0.1 per 1M input tokens and $0 per 1M output tokens (as of 2026-11-12). Context window: 8.2K tokens, up to 1.5K output tokens per request. 2 providers sell it, none below the official price.
Price by providerUSD per 1M tokens
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAIOfficialtext-embedding-ada-002 | $0.1 | $0 | — | Official | Official docs |
 Vercel AI Gatewayopenai/ | — | — | — | Official docs |
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About
Embedding model for semantic search, retrieval, clustering, and ranking pipelines
Description from models.dev.
Specs
- Type
- Embedding
- Context
- 8.2K
- Max output
- 1.5K
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Structured output
- —
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2022-12
- Open weights
- No
- Released
- 2022-12-15
Source
Prices and specs come from models.dev (MIT licence), updated 2026-11-12. Each provider's name links to its official docs. A provider priced at 0 usually includes the model in a subscription; it is not necessarily a free API.