text-embedding-ada-002

Name: text-embedding-ada-002
Brand: OpenAI
Availability: InStock

legacy

OpenAI · Small · Embedding

OpenAI's original second-generation embedding model, superseded by the text-embedding-3 family.

Input / 1M

$0.1

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Cached input / 1M

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The guide groups starting models by task — RAG, coding agents, summarization — each with per-call cost estimates.

Effective	Input	Output	Cached in	Note	Source
3 Jul 2026	$0.1	—	—	Legacy; price widely published, primary page de-emphasised (M confidence)	openai.com/pricing

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