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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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| 75 | 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. | 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 |
| 75 | 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. | az Microsoft Azure account pool resources [machine translation]Original: 微软Azure号池资源 Operator pending verification | 0.03 | 0.03 | — | 0.03Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 75 | sg.uiuiapi.comAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans | 🚀OpeniAI-VIP 🚀OpenAI/premium quality-official special-price channel | *1.5 [machine translation]Original: 🚀OpenAI/优质-官特价渠道 | *1.5 Operator pending verification | 0.03 | 0.03 | — | 0.03Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 75 | xrok.devAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | AZ-GPT-1.3 AZ GPT supports high concurrency, channel 2 [machine translation]Original: AZ GPT支持高并发，渠道2 Operator pending verification | 0.03 | 0.03 | — | 0.03Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 75 | yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans | Claude-Kior-low price-90% stability [machine translation]Group on site: Claude-Kior-低价-90%稳定性 Mainly for model distillation, must use the openai official relay channel, streaming first token 1-3s [machine translation]Original: 主要用于模型蒸馏，一定需要用openai官转渠道，流式输出首字1-3s Operator pending verification | 0.03 | 0.03 | — | 0.03Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 75 | yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans | GPT-Azure-low price-90% stability [machine translation]Group on site: GPT-Azure-低价-90%稳定性 Personal use/small experiments/model distillation, streaming first token 5-10s [machine translation]Original: 个人使用/小型实验使用/模型蒸馏使用，流式输出首字5-10s Operator pending verification | 0.03 | 0.03 | — | 0.03Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 75 | yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans | Gemini-low price-90% stability [machine translation]Group on site: Gemini-低价-90%稳定性 Personal use/small experiments/claude code, streaming first token 3-5s [machine translation]Original: 个人使用/小型实验使用/claude code，流式输出首字3-5s Operator pending verification | 0.03 | 0.03 | — | 0.03Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 75 | 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. | 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 |
| 75 | 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. | 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 |
| 75 | 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. | 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 |
| 75 | 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. | az Microsoft Azure account pool resources [machine translation]Original: 微软Azure号池资源 Operator pending verification | 0.03 | 0.03 | — | 0.03Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 75 | 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. | az Microsoft Azure account pool resources [machine translation]Original: 微软Azure号池资源 Operator pending verification | 0.03 | 0.03 | — | 0.03Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 88 | deepkey.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans | gpt-azure4 gpt-azure4-high-tier pool-supports astra [machine translation]Original: gpt-azure4-高等级池-支持astra Operator pending verification | 0.032 | 0.032 | — | 0.032Median price ÷ this price: 0.9375× | Full prices and sources |
| 88 | vakv.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical homepage assets, identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | az-6-sol exclusively supplied [machine translation]Group on site: az-6-sol专供 az-all models-enterprise only [machine translation]Original: az-全模型-企业专供 Operator pending verification | 0.032 | 0.064 | 0.00032 | 0.04Median price ÷ this price: 0.75× | Full prices and sources |
| 90 | deepkey.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans | gpt-azure-18 gpt-azure-1.8-enterprise exclusive supply [machine translation]Original: gpt-azure-1.8-企业专供 Operator pending verification | 0.036 | 0.036 | — | 0.036Median price ÷ this price: 0.833333333333333333333333333333333333× | Full prices and sources |
| 90 | www.cybersol.netAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 3 plans | GPT Advance Openai official Tier5 account direct connection, high availability. Too much image generation abuse will cause errors and disabling. [machine translation]Original: Openai官方Tier5账号直连，高可用。出图滥用过多会报错禁用。 Operator pending verification | 0.036 | 0.036 | — | 0.036Median price ÷ this price: 0.833333333333333333333333333333333333× | Full prices and sources |
| 92 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | svip svip Operator pending verification | 0.04 | 0.04 | — | 0.04Median price ÷ this price: 0.75× | Full prices and sources |
| 92 | 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. | Relay low price | one key calls all models [machine translation]Group on site: 中转低价｜一key调用全模型 ✨️All-model relay, low price, stable, fast [machine translation]Original: ✨️全模型中转，低价稳定、快速 Operator pending verification | 0.04 | 0.04 | — | 0.04Median price ÷ this price: 0.75× | Full prices and sources |
| 92 | yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 8 plans | Model aggregated group stability 90% [machine translation]Group on site: 模型聚合分组稳定性90% claude, gpt, deepseek, gemini available channel [machine translation]Original: claude、gpt、deepseek、gemini可用渠道 Operator pending verification | 0.04 | 0.04 | — | 0.04Median price ÷ this price: 0.75× | Full prices and sources |
| 92 | 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. | Relay low price | one key calls all models [machine translation]Group on site: 中转低价｜一key调用全模型 ✨️All-model relay, low price, stable, fast [machine translation]Original: ✨️全模型中转，低价稳定、快速 Operator pending verification | 0.04 | 0.04 | — | 0.04Median price ÷ this price: 0.75× | Full prices and sources |
| 92 | 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. | Relay low price | one key calls all models [machine translation]Group on site: 中转低价｜一key调用全模型 ✨️All-model relay, low price, stable, fast [machine translation]Original: ✨️全模型中转，低价稳定、快速 Operator pending verification | 0.04 | 0.04 | — | 0.04Median price ÷ this price: 0.75× | Full prices and sources |
| 97 | api.vibelearning.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 2 plans | azure-gpt Independent official line, not a subscription-account reverse proxy, consistently stable, 2000 RPM, distillation allowed [machine translation]Original: 独立官方线路，非订阅账号反代，持续稳定，2000 RPM，可蒸馏 Operator pending verification | 0.044 | 0.044 | — | 0.044Median price ÷ this price: 0.681818181818181818181818181818181818× | Full prices and sources |
| 97 | nexaxis.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | ChatGpt_AZ-5.6 5.6-only group [machine translation]Original: 5.6专用分组 Operator pending verification | 0.044 | 0.044 | 0.00044 | 0.044Median price ÷ this price: 0.681818181818181818181818181818181818× | Full prices and sources |
| 99 | 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. | fast-az Microsoft Azure stable resources [machine translation]Original: 微软Azure稳定资源 Operator pending verification | 0.046 | 0.046 | — | 0.046Median price ÷ this price: 0.652173913043478260869565217391304348× | Full prices and sources |
| 99 | 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. | fast-az Microsoft Azure stable resources [machine translation]Original: 微软Azure稳定资源 Operator pending verification | 0.046 | 0.046 | — | 0.046Median price ÷ this price: 0.652173913043478260869565217391304348× | 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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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.
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