OpenAI

OpenAI ada-002

Cost-effective and versatile embeddings for general tasks.

Low costGood general-purpose performanceFast inferenceEasy integration
Today's score
92.0
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Where it ranks today

Best for / Not great for

Best for
  • Small to medium RAG
  • Text classification
  • Clustering
  • General semantic search
Not great for
  • Highly specialized domains
  • Multilingual tasks requiring deep understanding
  • Maximum retrieval precision

Why it ranks here

OpenAI's ada-002 remains a popular choice due to its affordability and solid performance across a wide range of tasks. While not always the absolute best in benchmarks, its balance of cost, speed, and ease of use keeps it highly relevant, especially for applications not requiring bleeding-edge precision.

30-day trend

Score breakdown

Search trends91
Benchmarks90
Developer buzz94
News mentions93

Pricing

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

Pricing plans

Popular
Pay-as-you-go
Scale as you need with granular pricing
$0 /usage
  • ada-002 model access
  • Flexible usage
  • Standard API limits
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Dedicated Capacity
Guaranteed performance and throughput
Custom
  • Reserved instances
  • Higher rate limits
  • Custom SLAs
  • Dedicated support
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