OpenAI

OpenAI Ada-002

Widely adopted, general-purpose embeddings for diverse applications.

Ease of useBroad compatibilityCost-effective for many use casesStrong community support
Today's score
93.0
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Where it ranks today

Best for / Not great for

Best for
  • General semantic search
  • Text classification
  • Clustering
  • Anomaly detection
Not great for
  • Highly specialized domains needing deep contextual understanding
  • Very long text documents without chunking
  • Cutting-edge RAG performance compared to newer models

Why it ranks here

OpenAI's Ada-002 remains a popular choice due to its widespread integration and ease of use. While newer models may surpass it in specific benchmarks, its balance of performance, cost, and accessibility keeps it highly relevant for a vast array of general-purpose embedding needs.

30-day trend

Score breakdown

Search trends92
Benchmarks91
Developer buzz95
News mentions90

Pricing

API: $0.00 in · $0.00 out per 1M tokens · Consumer: $0.00/mo

Pricing plans

Popular
API Usage
Affordable and scalable.
$0.10 /usage
  • Pay per token
  • High availability
  • Global access
  • Well-documented API
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