API PRICES
text-embedding-3-small
Provider prices, cheapest first
All official and inference price observations
text-embedding-3-small official price: not yet recorded. Cheapest relay: api.ai-gaochao.cn, group "Evan" 0.02 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-23). 87 sites have comparable prices; 87 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 0.02 · median 0.02 · highest 0.04 · 17 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 0.02 · median 0.02 · highest 0.04 (17 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 | |||||||
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | Evan Name on site: text-embedding-3-small Evan Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | GZD Name on site: text-embedding-3-small GZD Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | Premium Name on site: text-embedding-3-small Premium Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | SSVIP Name on site: text-embedding-3-small SSVIP Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | XM Name on site: text-embedding-3-small XM Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | XMGMI Name on site: text-embedding-3-small XMGMI Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | XMboss Name on site: text-embedding-3-small XMboss Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | cc Name on site: text-embedding-3-small cc Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | claude_official [machine translation]Group on site: claude_官 Name on site: text-embedding-3-small claude_official [machine translation]Original: claude_官 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | default Name on site: text-embedding-3-small default Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | hershe Name on site: text-embedding-3-small hershe Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | minimax Name on site: text-embedding-3-small minimax Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | temp Name on site: text-embedding-3-small temp Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | tieta Name on site: text-embedding-3-small tieta Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | vip Name on site: text-embedding-3-small vip Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 01 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | Enterprise users [machine translation]Group on site: 企业用户 Name on site: text-embedding-3-small Enterprise users [machine translation]Original: 企业用户 Operator pending verification | 0.02 | 0.02 | — | 0.02Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
| 17 | api.ai-gaochao.cnAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 17 plans | svip Name on site: text-embedding-3-small svip Operator pending verification | 0.04 | 0.04 | — | 0.04Median price ÷ this price: 0.5× | 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 0.00004 / Output 0 USD credits / 1M
- api.pezayo.com · codex · text-embedding-3-small · Input 0.0004 / 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: 93,968 prices from 854 sites (about 751 companies). 84,786 are ranked, from 838 sites (about 736 companies); 9,182 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-24.
This model has 442 recorded prices; 230 can be compared directly (225 ranked, 5 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 145, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 24, new price under review; showing the previous one 16, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 12, display unit not confirmed 8, ratio looks unset 1
17 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 text-embedding-3-small?
api.ai-gaochao.cn, group "Evan", 0.02 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-23. 87 sites have comparable prices.
How do I use text-embedding-3-small in Claude Code or Codex?
Install Grandet Skill, then say "Connect the cheapest text-embedding-3-small API to Claude Code for me". Install Skill →