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text-embedding-ada-002

text-embedding-ada-002

Researched today

text-embedding-ada-002 has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 0 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-16.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 8K context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows

Cheapest output

-

No tracked output price

Provider routes

0

No provider route in seed

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-16

Researched today

fresh

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

OpenAI's Ada-002 text embedding model. Legacy but widely deployed; succeeded by text-embedding-3 series. 1536 output dimensions.

text-embedding-ada-002 has a 8K-token context window.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Specifications

Released2022-12-15
Context8K
Specializationembedding
LicenseProprietary

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