API PRICES
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
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.0045 · median 0.03 · highest 0.2 · 167 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
Relay CNY credit prices · 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.
Price range: lowest 0.0045 · median 0.03 · highest 0.2 (167 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recent price | |||||||
| 148 | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Enterprise top speed | one key calls all models [machine translation]Group on site: 企业极速｜一key调用全模型 ✨️Official price channel⭐️ calls official direct-connection models first l stable 24 hours l enterprise high concurrency [machine translation]Original: ✨️官方原价通道⭐️优先调用官方直连模型 l 24小时稳定 l 企业高并发 Operator pending verification | 0.11 | 0.11 | — | 0.11Median price ÷ this price: 0.3× | Full prices and sources |
| 152 | poloai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 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. | A-Claude/GPT-svip top-speed channel [machine translation]Group on site: A-Claude/GPT-svip 极速通道 Poorly named group; enterprise users are gradually switching groups [machine translation]Original: 分组命名不佳，企业用户逐步更换分组 Operator pending verification | 0.136 | 0.136 | — | 0.136Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 152 | poloapi.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | A-Claude/GPT-svip top-speed channel [machine translation]Group on site: A-Claude/GPT-svip 极速通道 Poorly named group; enterprise users are gradually switching groups [machine translation]Original: 分组命名不佳，企业用户逐步更换分组 Operator pending verification | 0.136 | 0.136 | — | 0.136Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 152 | xy.poloapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | A-Claude/GPT-svip top-speed channel [machine translation]Group on site: A-Claude/GPT-svip 极速通道 Poorly named group; enterprise users are gradually switching groups [machine translation]Original: 分组命名不佳，企业用户逐步更换分组 Operator pending verification | 0.136 | 0.136 | — | 0.136Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 155 | dli.liAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | openai-api OpenAI API official API direct connection [machine translation]Original: OpenAI API 官方 API 直连 Operator pending verification | 0.14 | 0.28 | 0.0014 | 0.175Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 156 | ai.comfly.orgAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 6 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | origin Enterprise group (origin)-OpenAI&Claude official price [machine translation]Original: 企业分组(origin)-OpenAI&Claude官方原价 Operator pending verification | 0.146 | 0.146 | — | 0.146Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 156 | 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. | origin Enterprise group (origin)-OpenAI&Claude official price [machine translation]Original: 企业分组(origin)-OpenAI&Claude官方原价 Operator pending verification | 0.146 | 0.146 | — | 0.146Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 156 | ai.t8star.orgAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 6 plans 1 more site of the same company
Basis: identical quotes. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | origin Enterprise group (origin)-OpenAI&Claude official price [machine translation]Original: 企业分组(origin)-OpenAI&Claude官方原价 Operator pending verification | 0.146 | 0.146 | — | 0.146Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 156 | api.bltcy.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 6 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | origin Enterprise group (origin)-OpenAI&Claude official price [machine translation]Original: 企业分组(origin)-OpenAI&Claude官方原价 Operator pending verification | 0.146 | 0.146 | — | 0.146Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 156 | one-api.bltcy.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 6 plans 2 more sites of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | origin Enterprise group (origin)-OpenAI&Claude official price [machine translation]Original: 企业分组(origin)-OpenAI&Claude官方原价 Operator pending verification | 0.146 | 0.146 | — | 0.146Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 161 | learn-ai.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | openai 1.5 Operator pending verification | 0.15 | 0.15 | — | 0.15Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 162 | 35.aigcbest.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | Top-speed channel [machine translation]Group on site: 极速通道 👍 Highest concurrency guaranteed | stable 24 hours [machine translation]Original: 👍 最高并发保证 | 24小时稳定 Operator pending verification | 0.16 | 0.16 | — | 0.16Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 162 | api.aabao.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 6 plans 1 more site 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. | OpenAI direct connection [machine translation]Group on site: OpenAI直连 OpenAI direct connection (8.0x rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: OpenAI直连（8.0倍率） Operator pending verification | 0.16 | 0.16 | — | 0.16Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 162 | api.aabao.vipAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 6 plans 1 more site of the same company
Basis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | OpenAI direct connection [machine translation]Group on site: OpenAI直连 OpenAI direct connection (8.0x rate multiplier) [machine translation]Original: OpenAI直连（8.0倍率） Operator pending verification | 0.16 | 0.16 | — | 0.16Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 165 | api.eido.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | default Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 0.2 | 0.2 | — | 0.2Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 165 | bikip.proAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | default default Operator pending verification | 0.2 | 0.2 | — | 0.2Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 165 | xinsuanai.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | Official relay Claude [machine translation]Group on site: 官转克劳德 Official relay Claude [machine translation]Original: 官转克劳德 Operator pending verification | 0.2 | 0.2 | — | 0.2Median price ÷ this price: 0.2× | Full prices and sources |
| Older price | |||||||
| 01 | api.openai-ch.topAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | Azure-Ⅰ Azure 0.2x rate multiplier group [machine translation]Original: Azure 0.2倍率分组 Operator pending verification | 0.004 | 0.008 | 0.00004 | 0.005Median price ÷ this price: 6× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | api.openai-ch.topAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | Azure-Ⅲ Azure 0.3x rate multiplier group [machine translation]Original: Azure 0.3倍率分组 Operator pending verification | 0.006 | 0.012 | 0.00006 | 0.0075Median price ÷ this price: 4× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | api.openai-ch.topAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | Azure-VIP 5.1,5.2,sora2,image advanced model group [machine translation]Original: 5.1,5.2,sora2,image高级模型分组 Operator pending verification | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.0001 | 0.0125Median price ÷ this price: 2.4× | Full prices and sources |
| 04 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 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 |
| 04 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 plans | 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 |
| 04 | api.openai-ch.topAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | Azure Azure group [machine translation]Original: Azure分组 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.0002 | 0.025Median price ÷ this price: 1.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 04 | api.openai-ch.topAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 5 plans | default Default group [machine translation]Original: 默认分组 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.0002 | 0.025Median price ÷ this price: 1.2× | Full prices and sources |
| 08 | kg-api.cloudAsk or discussCollected: Carried previous price Not updated this time; showing the previous price View 6 plans | AZ-premium quality [machine translation]Group on site: AZ-优质 Pure Azure-premium quality, supports o1, o3 [machine translation]Original: 纯Azure-优质，支持o1、o3 Operator pending verification | 0.03 | 0.03 | — | 0.03Median price ÷ this price: 1× | 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.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
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?
Install Grandet Skill, then say "Connect the cheapest OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small API to Claude Code for me". Install Skill →