Today's price · per 1M tokens
Input
$0.020
per 1M tokens
Output
—
embeddings bill input only
Price
$0.020
billed on input only
Source: official OpenAI pricing · read
MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-09-22
Price receipt
We read OpenAI's own pricing page on and found text-embedding-3-small listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 8ed83bb3c7.
Overview
OpenAI's small embedding model. $0.02 per 1M tokens.
Capabilities
struck through = not supportedInput 1/4
Text ✓
Image
Audio
Video
Output
Embedding ✓
Features 0/9
Prompt caching
Reasoning
Coding
Fast inference
Long context
Open weights
Multimodal
Web search
Realtime
Specifications
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Context window
- 8K tokens
- Modality
- text
- Parameters
- Proprietary
- Open source
- No — proprietary
- Released
- Status
- Current
- Last updated
- Tags
Availability verified: — listed on OpenAI's own page