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OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small
Provider prices, cheapest first
OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest relay: llmhub.ltd, group "default" 0.0045 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 88 sites have comparable prices; 150 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
USD_CREDIT · Lowest 0.0045 · median 0.03 · highest 0.2 · 167 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
CNY_CREDIT · Lowest 0.0104 · median 0.06 · highest 0.507 · 25 quotes CNY / per million tokens, site credit
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
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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| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | XMGMI XMGMI Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | XMboss XMboss Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | cc cc Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | claude_official [machine translation]Group on site: claude_官 claude_official [machine translation]Original: claude_官 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | default default Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | hershe hershe Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | minimax minimax Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | temp temp Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | tieta tieta Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | vip vip Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | Enterprise users [machine translation]Group on site: 企业用户 Enterprise users [machine translation]Original: 企业用户 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.aipipe.ioAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | GPT forwarding [machine translation]Group on site: GPT 转发 Unofficial, good stability [machine translation]Original: 非官方，稳定性良好 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.aipipe.ioAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | GPT official relay [machine translation]Group on site: GPT官转 Forwards to official, good stability [machine translation]Original: 转发官方，稳定性良好 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.bianxie.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | default default Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.bltcy.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 6 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.bltcy.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 6 plans 2 more sites of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | svip Pure Azure [machine translation]Original: 纯Azure Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.hopeai.ccAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | default Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.xhuoai.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | default Default group, supports all common models, OpenAI special-price channel (AZ Microsoft channel) Claude Code, Gemini stable channel (GCP/Velax), top value-for-money choice, 20% of list price, rate multiplier 1.0 [machine translation]Original: 默认分组，支持所有常用模型,OpenAI特价渠道（AZ微软渠道）Claude Code,Gemini稳定渠道（GCP/Velax），性价比首选，2折，倍率1.0 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | api.xistree.hkAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | default Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | llm.azopenai.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | default default Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | nekoapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical homepage assets, identical quotes. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | default Default (Azure + base models) | Azure + Other Base Models [machine translation]Original: 默认（Azure + 基础模型）| Azure + Other Base Models Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | sg.uiuiapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans | default ⭐ Default (mixed channels) | Azure + official models [machine translation]Original: ⭐ 默认（混渠道）| Azure + 官模型 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | wolfai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | default Default, recommended - automatic load optimization | all models available [machine translation]Original: 默认推荐使用-自动负载优化｜全模型可用 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | www.cybersol.netAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans | Embeddings Embeddings, Gemini, Openai official API direct connection. [machine translation]Original: Embeddings, Gemini, Openai 官方API直连。 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
| 10 | xinsuanai.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | default Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.5× | Full prices and sources |
Special groups · 4 rows · not ranked
These plans are marked as test, internal, disabled, gated by top-up or membership, or have a near-zero ratio. They may not be purchasable or stable, so they are listed separately and left out of the ranking and statistics.
- near-zero-ratio group: 3 rows
- test or debug group: 1 rows
- zen-ai.top · free · text-embedding-3-small · Input 0.00002 / Output 0.00002 USD credits / 1M
- api.pezayo.com · codex anthropic · text-embedding-3-small · Input 0.00003 / Output 0 USD credits / 1M
- api.pezayo.com · codex · text-embedding-3-small · Input 0.0003 / Output 0 USD credits / 1M
- test-api.apiqik.online · openai · text-embedding-3-small · Input 0.006 / Output 0.006 USD credits / 1M
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
186 recent · 14 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 14 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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FAQ
Which API is cheapest for OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small?
llmhub.ltd, group "default", 0.0045 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 88 sites have comparable prices.
How do I use OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small in Claude Code or Codex?
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