text-embedding-ada-002

Released
2022-12-15
Last refreshed
2026-10-07
Status
Researched 179d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restricted
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Specifications
Released
2022-12-15
Context
8.19K
Knowledge cutoff
2021-09
Specialization
embedding
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by
OpenAI

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
$0.100

Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenAI API

Providers(2)
Vercel AI GatewayOpenAI API
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About

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

Providers(2)

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenAI API$0.100-
ServerlessPartial
Vercel AI Gateway$0.100-
ServerlessPartial

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LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

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OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.

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Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.

SubscriptionOpenAI API

AIRouter

Router

Commercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.

SubscriptionOpenAI API

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

SubscriptionOpenAI API

Kong AI Gateway

Gateway

Multi-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.

SubscriptionOpenAI API

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