Pricing discrepancy for embedding models between Pricing page and Model docs

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Hi everyone,

I noticed that the pricing for the text-embedding-3-large model is different between two official OpenAI pages:

This is a pretty big difference especially for batched operations, so I’m not sure which one is actually correct for billing.

Could someone confirm the current live pricing?

Thanks in advance!

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Archived May 2025, before any saboteur started throwing monkey shoes.

Reduced price. text-embedding-3-small is also substantially more efficient than our previous generation text-embedding-ada-002 model. Pricing for text-embedding-3-small has therefore been reduced by 5X compared to text-embedding-ada-002 , from a price per 1k tokens of $0.000 1 to $0.000 02.

text-embedding-3-large will be priced at $0.000 13 / 1k tokens.

Thus, per 1M:

ada-002: $0.10
3-large: $0.02
3-large: $0.13

The pricing page in the platform site has all the embeddings priced at half what they have been.

Additionally, they have a whopping 99% discount listed as batch pricing instead of 50%.

That makes it dubious.

You ask, “will somebody else spend their own credits to find out, cause I don’wanna”. Sure.

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  • The expected continued pricing is delivered.
  • Platform site is wrong on all models and use-case

Truth in advertising: You can make a note of today’s date, a digitally signed screenshot with metadata hash, batch $100 of embeddings, then send a request for a refund since the advertised price was $1…

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Hey Samet

this is Diana from the user operations team

This is the official pricing page
Model documentation page:$0.13 per 1M tokens (Batch: $0.065 per 1M tokens) [https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/text-embedding-3-large](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/text-embedding-3-large)

Let us know if you have any further questions.

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Hello Diana.

This is a link that has pricing right in the name.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing

The data provided there for embeddings models is incorrect, needing repair.

Thanks from the field.

Yours truly.

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Closing the loop and the topic:
The documented pricing has been corrected and it’s now the same on both the model page and the pricing page.

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