Embedding Cost Calculator

Calculate embedding API costs for RAG applications.

Embedding Configuration

Embedding Model

Number of Documents

Average Document Length (characters)

Queries per Day

Average Query Length (characters)

Reindex Frequency

Total Yearly Cost

$0.15

Using text-embedding-3-small

📥Indexing Cost

$0.0100

🔍Monthly Queries

$0.0015

Initial Indexing$0.0100

Yearly Query Cost$0.02

Yearly Reindex Cost$0.12

Tokens per Document500

Total Document Tokens0.50M

Daily Query Tokens2,500

Embedding Dimensions1536

Total Storage5.86 MB

Est. DB Storage Cost/mo$0.40

text-embedding-ada-002$0.0500

text-embedding-3-small$0.0100

text-embedding-3-large$0.0650

Cohere embed-english-v3$0.0500

Cohere embed-multilingual-v3$0.0500

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Formula Source: Standard Mathematical References

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