Calculate monthly embedding expenses

Embedding API Cost Calculator

Estimate your monthly costs for popular embedding APIs from providers like OpenAI, Cohere, and Hugging Face based on query volume and model choice. Designed for AI platform engineering and procurement teams evaluating embedding consumption budgets.

Embedding APIs are a critical component in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge base applications. Cost control depends on query volume, model size, and provider pricing tiers.

This calculator supports embeddings from OpenAI's text-embedding-ada-002, Cohere's multilingual-22-12-v2, and Hugging Face's Sentence Transformers. Adjust parameters for volume and provider to project monthly spend.

Inputs

Monthly queries

Number of embedding requests per month

Average tokens per query

Average number of tokens embedded in each query

Embedding API provider

Model variant

Cost calculation

Estimated monthly cost (USD)

monthly_queries * tokens_per_query / 1000 * price_per_1k_tokens

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Embedding cost estimate

Projected spend is within expected budget ranges for embedding workloads.

Note

Actual costs may vary due to provider discounts, volume pricing tiers, or usage outside of standard billing units. Confirm with provider pricing pages before budgeting.

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