API PRICES
OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small
Provider prices, cheapest first
OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest relay: cnapi.kksj.org, group "default" 0.018 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 0.018 · median 0.026 · highest 0.076 · 4 quotes USD / 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 0.018 · median 0.026 · highest 0.076 (4 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 |
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| 01 | cnapi.kksj.orgAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | default Default group, AZ channel plus official reverse-engineered channel for some models, AZ first, reverse-engineered as fallback, auto-tuning (default) [machine translation]Original: 默认分组,AZ渠道加部分模型官方逆向渠道,优先AZ,保底逆向,自动调优(default) Operator pending verification | 0.018 | 0.018 | — | 0.018Median price ÷ this price: 1.4× | Full prices and sources |
| 02 | cnapi.kksj.orgAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | azpro More az concurrency group (azpro) [machine translation]Original: 更多的az并发分组(azpro) Operator pending verification | 0.024 | 0.024 | — | 0.024Median price ÷ this price: 1.1× | Full prices and sources |
| 03 | cnapi.kksj.orgAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | azplus Pure az stable group, az only (azplus) [machine translation]Original: 纯az稳定分组，只有az(azplus) Operator pending verification | 0.028 | 0.028 | — | 0.028Median price ÷ this price: 0.9× | Full prices and sources |
| 04 | cnapi.kksj.orgAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 4 plans | guan Official group, uses AZ plus official channels, can use all models on this site, most stable, very expensive!!! If other groups have it use them first; use this one when other groups stop working well [machine translation]Original: 官方分组,使用AZ加官方渠道,可以使用本站所有模型,最稳定,很贵!!!建议其它分组有的先用其它分组,其它分组不好用了再用这个 Operator pending verification | 0.076 | 0.076 | — | 0.076Median price ÷ this price: 0.3× | 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
4 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.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for OpenAI · text-embedding-3-small?
cnapi.kksj.org, group "default", 0.018 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 88 sites have comparable prices.
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