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OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small

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OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest relay: yinli.one, group "deepseek" 0.02 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.

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USD_CREDIT · Lowest 0.02 · median 0.035 · highest 0.1 · 8 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit

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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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Blended price = input × 75% + output × 25%, without cache.

Price range: lowest 0.02 · median 0.035 · highest 0.1 (8 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)

sites have comparable prices88150 sites list this model; approximately 1 operators

Lowest input price0.02USD credits / 1M

Median of each provider’s lowest price0.02USD credits / 1M

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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01	yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: 16 Oct 2026, 07:54 UTC Collected this cycle View 8 plans	deepseek Deepseek channel [machine translation]Original: Deepseek渠道 Operator pending verification	0.02	0.02	—	0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1.75×	Full prices and sources
02	yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: 16 Oct 2026, 07:54 UTC 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: 1.166666666666666666666666666666666667×	Full prices and sources
02	yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: 16 Oct 2026, 07:54 UTC 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: 1.166666666666666666666666666666666667×	Full prices and sources
02	yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: 16 Oct 2026, 07:54 UTC 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: 1.166666666666666666666666666666666667×	Full prices and sources
05	yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: 16 Oct 2026, 07:54 UTC 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: 0.875×	Full prices and sources
06	yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: 16 Oct 2026, 07:54 UTC Collected this cycle View 8 plans	GPT-Azure-mid price-95% stability [machine translation]Group on site: GPT-Azure-中价-95%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	0.06	0.06	—	0.06Median price ÷ this price: 0.583333333333333333333333333333333333×	Full prices and sources
07	yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: 16 Oct 2026, 07:54 UTC Collected this cycle View 8 plans	GPT-Azure-high price-99% stability [machine translation]Group on site: GPT-Azure-高价-99%稳定性 Personal use/small experiments/commercial APP use, streaming first token 3-5s [machine translation]Original: 个人使用/小型实验使用/商业APP使用，流式输出首字3-5s Operator pending verification	0.1	0.1	—	0.1Median price ÷ this price: 0.35×	Full prices and sources
07	yinli.oneAsk or discussCollected: 16 Oct 2026, 07:54 UTC Collected this cycle View 8 plans	GPT-openai official relay-high price-95% stability [machine translation]Group on site: GPT-openai官转-高价-95%稳定性 Commercial APP use, recommended when stability needs are very high, streaming first token 1-3s [machine translation]Original: 商业APP使用，稳定性要求极高推荐使用，流式输出首字1-3s Operator pending verification	0.1	0.1	—	0.1Median price ÷ this price: 0.35×	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

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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

8 recent · 0 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. 0 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?

yinli.one, group "deepseek", 0.02 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 →