text-embedding-3-small pricing
List price for the text-embedding-3-small text-embedding API from OpenAI — cost per 1M tokens and output dimensionality, plus what it costs to embed corpora of different sizes. All figures in USD.
What text-embedding-3-small costs to embed a corpus
Estimated cost to embed corpora of different sizes at text-embedding-3-small's list price. Embedding is billed on input tokens only.
| Workload | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Embed 100K tokens | 100,000 | $0.00200 |
| Embed a 1M-token corpus | 1,000,000 | $0.020 |
| Embed a 10M-token corpus | 10,000,000 | $0.200 |
| Embed a 100M-token corpus | 100,000,000 | $2.00 |
Provider-published list price, USD per 1M tokens, current as of July 2026. Verify with OpenAI before relying on these figures for billing.
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