Inconsistent pricing for text-embedding-3-large between model card and pricing page

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Hi everyone,

I noticed a discrepancy in the pricing information for the text-embedding-3-large model across different OpenAI pages:

Is this a UI error on the model card? Or is there a reason for the $0.13 figure being shown there?
I’d appreciate any clarification.

Thanks in advance!

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We’re also having a similar problem.

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That was made using batch api and costed us 4.75$

That makes approx. $0.01 per 1M tokens.

But the pricing tables for this month, August 2025. The actual cost of 3-small was $0.01 and the batch api should’ve been $0.0001 per 1M tokens. But here we are.

Can someone confirm whats going on and why does different pricing have been applied? We’re also a on tier 4 usage.

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OpenAI API Pricing for Embeddings states $0.0001/1M tokens for text-embedding-3-small Batch API. I have been charged $0.01/1M tokens which is 100x higher.

Similarly, stated pricing is $0.00013/1M tokens for text-embedding-3-large but actually charged is $0.065/1M tokens which is 500x higher.

This is 3 magnitudes off and completely changes what can and cannot be built with this tech.

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I have the same, today I used n8n for my business and used the gpt-4 model. I used 10k tokens and it should be around 0.06 up to 0,12 but it charged me a fxcking dolar

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Hi everyone,

Thank you for flagging! I’m working with our docs team now to clarify the price for text-embedding-3-large and make sure our docs are accurate.

It looks like Docs > Models > Pricing is correct, and the correct price is:

  • Cost: $0.13 / 1M tokens

  • Batch API price: $0.065 / 1M tokens

For those of you that overpaid based on our incorrect docs, please DM me your org_id!

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What about the price on the official pricing page https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing#embeddings, it’s shown as $0.065 per 1M tokens and $0.00013 for batch cost ?

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From what I’ve gathered so far, that one is incorrect and we’re working to correct this ASAP. Please do let me know if you find any other incorrect references. Thank you!

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@vc-openai

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Please refund. You will have to check deleted projects to find the usage.

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Hi @samuel.da.shadrach , happy to help.

I may need your help tracking this down since I’m not easily able to view deleted projects. Do you have a timeframe where you used text-embedding-3-large? From your org over the last 3 months, I see usage for text-embedding-3-small, but this may be due to the relevant project being deleted.

Let me know!

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I used text-embedding-3-small

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Hello,

It turns out the final pricing was set at $0.13 per 1M tokens, with batching priced at $0.065 per 1M. This update was reflected on the model card and official pricing page—after nearly a month of being displayed as $0.065 per 1M and $0.00013 per 1M.
Frankly, it’s quite frustrating to see such an oversight from a company like OpenAI.

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@samuel.da.shadrach Thank you! Just added credits into your account :slight_smile:

@Anass_El_Basraoui Definitely understand your frustration. Let me know the approximate date range and models used (-large and/or -small) and I’d be happy to credit the difference!

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Thanks for your answer!
I was just excited about the new pricing—especially the batching system. I’ve got an idea that could turn into something big, so I was really looking forward to it. But it’s not a big deal, inchallah there will be another way.