text-embedding-ada-002
Legacy Embed
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 8,000-token context window.
INPUT
$0.100/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
—
per million output tokens
CONTEXT
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 8,000 tokens of context in a single request.
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.