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text-embedding-ada-002

Provided by OpenAI
Pay-as-you-go

text-embedding-ada-002 is OpenAI's legacy text embedding model.

Model specs

Model ID
text-embedding-ada-002
Context length
8.191K
Max output
–
I/O modalities
Released
2025-10

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API endpoints

One MixRoute gateway, OpenAI-compatible

  • OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions POST

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Pricing

Flat rate, unit: /1M Tokens

Input

$0.1000 /1M Tokens

Completion

$0.1000 /1M Tokens

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Selection summary

Quickly judge whether it fits your workload

What is this model good for?

OpenAI's legacy text embedding model

text-embedding-ada-002 is OpenAI's legacy text embedding model.

What should you check before using it?

Confirm vector dimensions and token limits

text-embedding-ada-002 supports the OpenAI SDK. Knowledge cutoff: 2022-12. Released 2022-12-15. It is billed at 0.1 USD per 1M tokens. Test a representative workload before production.

Why use it through MixRoute?

Swap the base URL, keep the text-embedding-ada-002 client

MixRoute serves text-embedding-ada-002 on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint /v1/chat/completions; point your existing client at https://api.mixroute.ai/v1 with the model ID text-embedding-ada-002 and re-run your integration tests.

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Capabilities & compatibility

Unconfirmed capabilities stay "Unknown," no guesses

Available:

OpenAI SDK

Call text-embedding-ada-002 through MixRoute's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

EX Change base_url to https://api.mixroute.ai/v1; everything else follows the OpenAI style.

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Token cost estimator

Live estimate from this page's pricing, not an actual bill

This model has no cache-read price; caching is not counted

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FAQ

text-embedding-ada-002 is OpenAI’s legacy text embedding model. It provides numerical representations of text for measuring relatedness. Consider upgrading to text-embedding-3-small for improved performance.

One endpoint, a testable decision

Test this model and alternate routes with the same request format

Start from a real workload, then let quality, total cost, and failure conditions decide whether to send production traffic.