Claude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/MClaude Fable 5$22.000/MClaude Opus 4.8$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.7$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.6$11.000/MClaude Opus 4.5$33.000/MClaude Sonnet 3.7$6.600/MClaude Opus 3$33.000/MClaude 2.1$12.800/MClaude 2$12.800/MGPT-5.5$12.500/MGPT-5.2$5.425/MGPT-5.2-Codex$5.425/MGPT-5$3.875/MGPT-4.5$97.500/MGPT-4 Turbo Preview$16.000/MGPT-4$39.000/MGPT-4-32k$78.000/Mo3$19.000/Mo3-mini$2.090/Mo4-mini$2.090/Mo1$28.500/Mo1-mini$5.700/Mo1-preview$28.500/MGemini 3.5 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3.1 Pro$5.000/MGemini 3 Pro$5.000/MGemini 2.5 Pro$3.875/MGemini 1.5 Pro$2.375/MGemini 1.0 Ultra$12.000/MGemini 1.0 Pro$0.800/M
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text-embedding-ada-002

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The embedding workhorse of 2022–24. Deprecated — migrate to text-embedding-3-small or 3-large.

text-embedding-ada-002 is a embedding AI model from OpenAI. It costs $0.100 per million input tokens, with a 8K-token context window.

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INPUT
$0.100/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
—
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
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default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
8K
8,000 tokens
Benchmarks
No published benchmark scores tracked for this model yet. Frontier and reasoning models from major providers have scores; smaller models and inference-host variants typically inherit the underlying open-weights score.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does text-embedding-ada-002 cost?

text-embedding-ada-002 costs $0.100 per million input tokens.

What is text-embedding-ada-002's context window?

text-embedding-ada-002 supports up to 8K tokens of context (8,000 tokens).

What is text-embedding-ada-002 best for?

The embedding workhorse of 2022–24. Deprecated — migrate to text-embedding-3-small or 3-large.

Who makes text-embedding-ada-002?

text-embedding-ada-002 is developed and served by OpenAI.