How much do your embeddings really cost?

Calculate the true cost of generating and storing embeddings across AI models. Compare providers and find the cheapest option for your use case.

Embedding Cost Calculator

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Total documents to embed

Typical document length in tokens (~750 words = 1000 tokens)

Search/retrieval queries per month

Typical query length in tokens

1536 dimensions · 8,191 max tokens · MTEB 62

Total Tokens to Embed

50.0M

50,000,000 tokens

Embedding Cost

$1.00

One-time cost to embed all documents

Monthly Query Cost

$0.0500

50,000 queries/mo

Total Monthly Cost

$1.05

Embedding + query costs

Annual Cost

$12.60

Cost Per Document

$0.0000

Cheapest Alternative

Switch to text-embedding-005

Google · 768 dims · MTEB 63

Save $1.05/month ($12.60/year)

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