How much does text-embedding-ada-002 cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, text-embedding-ada-002 costs about $30.00 per month at OpenAI's list prices ($0.10 per 1M input tokens, free output).

Does text-embedding-ada-002 support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for text-embedding-ada-002.

How long is text-embedding-ada-002's context window?

text-embedding-ada-002 accepts up to 8,192 tokens (8.2K) of context and returns up to 1,536 tokens per response.

text-embedding-ada-002 API Pricing

OpenAI · released Dec 15, 2022 · 8.2K context · API model ID text-embedding-ada-002

text-embedding-ada-002 by OpenAI API pricing: $0.10 per 1M input tokens and free output (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

text-embedding-ada-002 prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.10
Output	Free
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published

OpenAI's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$30.00

per month

per day: $1.00
per request: $0.0001

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$30.00/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$120.00/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$150.00/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 8,192 tokens
Max output: 1,536 tokens
Input: text
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: December 2022
Open weights: No
Tool calling: No
Reasoning: No
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does text-embedding-ada-002 cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, text-embedding-ada-002 costs about $30.00 per month at OpenAI's list prices ($0.10 per 1M input tokens, free output).
Does text-embedding-ada-002 support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for text-embedding-ada-002.
How long is text-embedding-ada-002's context window?: text-embedding-ada-002 accepts up to 8,192 tokens (8.2K) of context and returns up to 1,536 tokens per response.