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OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small
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OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small official price: not yet recorded. 88 sites have comparable prices; 150 sites list this model.
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Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
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Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
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| — | test-api.apiqik.onlineAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | openai openai Group notes: test or debug group Operator pending verification | 0.006 | 0.006 | — | 0.006 | Full prices and sources |
| Special groups · not ranked · Flagged · not ranked · Recent price | |||||||
| — | zen-ai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | free ❤️Perk group, includes az-gpt,gemini official relay, rpm3 [machine translation]Original: ❤️福利分组, 含az-gpt,gemini官转, rpm3 Note: far from other providers’ prices, unrecognized flag GROUP_FLAGGED. This price is not ranked or counted. Group notes: near-zero-ratio group Operator pending verification | 0.00002 | 0.00002 | — | 0.00002 | Full prices and sources |
| Special groups · not ranked · Flagged · not ranked · Recent price · Includes prices of 0 (free status unconfirmed) | |||||||
| — · Price of 0 · free status unconfirmed | api.pezayo.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | codex anthropic codex anthropic group, calls gpt-5.4 gpt-5.3-codex via the anthropic format for use in claude code (relatively low cost) [machine translation]Original: codex anthropic 分组，通过 anthropic 格式调用 gpt-5.4 gpt-5.3-codex 用于 claude code 当中（成本相对低廉） Note: far from other providers’ prices, unrecognized flag GROUP_FLAGGED. This price is not ranked or counted. Group notes: near-zero-ratio group Operator pending verification | 0.00003 | 0 | — | 0.0000225 | Full prices and sources |
| — · Price of 0 · free status unconfirmed | api.pezayo.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | codex codex group, calls gpt-5.4 gpt-5.3-codex via the openai response format for use in codex, opencode and other apps (relatively low cost) [machine translation]Original: codex 分组，通过 openai response 格式调用 gpt-5.4 gpt-5.3-codex 用于 codex，opencode 等应用当中（成本相对低廉） Note: far from other providers’ prices, unrecognized flag GROUP_FLAGGED. This price is not ranked or counted. Group notes: near-zero-ratio group Operator pending verification | 0.0003 | 0 | — | 0.000225 | Full prices and sources |
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 447 recorded prices; 234 can be compared directly (229 ranked, 5 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 155, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 24, display unit not confirmed 14, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 12, new price under review; showing the previous one 1
4 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. No recent prices to summarize in this group. 2 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
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