How many embedding LLM models are available?

There are currently 30 embedding models tracked on Sector HQ. Pricing is collected every 6 hours from all major inference providers.

How is blended price calculated?

Blended price uses the formula (3 × input + 1 × output) / 4 per million tokens, reflecting typical usage where input tokens outnumber output tokens roughly 3:1.

Cheapest Embedding LLM APIs in 2026

Text embedding model APIs ranked by price per million tokens. Compare costs for RAG, search, and similarity use cases.

What is the cheapest embedding LLM?

The cheapest embedding LLM API is pplx-embed-v1-0.6b via Perplexity at $0.0030 per million tokens. 30 embedding models are compared across all providers.

Embedding Models by Price

30 models

#	Model	Provider	Input	Output	Quality	Released↓
22	Nova 2 Multimodal Embeddings	AWS Bedrock	$0.135	Free	—	Dec 2
20	Embed V 4.0	Azure OpenAI	$0.120	Free	—	Apr 15
23	Gemini Embedding 001	Google	$0.150	Free	—	Mar 25
19	Gte Modernbert Base	Together AI	$0.080	$0.080	—	Mar 1
29	Twelvelabs Marengo Embed 2 7	AWS Bedrock	$70.00	Free	—	Jan 1
24	Codestral Embed 2505	Mistral AI	$0.150	Free	—	May 29
25	Codestral Embed	Mistral AI	$0.150	Free	—	May 29
5	Text Embedding 3 Small	OpenAI	$0.020	Free	—	Jan 25
21	Text Embedding 3 Large	Azure OpenAI	$0.130	Free	—	Jan 25
2	Together AI Embedding UP TO 150M	Together AI	$0.0080	Free	—	Jan 1
3	Multilingual E5 Large Instruct	Deepinfra	$0.010	Free	—	Jan 1
4	Together AI Embedding 151M TO 350M	Together AI	$0.016	Free	—	Jan 1
9	Titan Embed Text V1	AWS Bedrock	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 28
26	Titan Embed Text	AWS Bedrock	$0.200	Free	—	Nov 28
28	Titan Embed Image V1	AWS Bedrock	$0.800	Free	—	Nov 28
10	Cohere Embed V3 English	Azure OpenAI	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
11	Embed English V3	AWS Bedrock	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
12	Embed Multilingual	Cohere	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
13	Embed English Light	Cohere	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
15	Embed	Mistral AI	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
16	Cohere Embed V3 Multilingual	Azure OpenAI	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
17	Embed English	Cohere	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
18	Embed Multilingual V3	AWS Bedrock	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
30	Embed Multilingual Light	Cohere	$100.00	Free	—	Nov 2
7	Text Embedding Ada 002	Azure OpenAI	$0.100	Free	—	Dec 15
14	Text Embedding Ada 002 V2	OpenAI	$0.100	Free	—	Dec 15
8	Ada	Azure OpenAI	$0.100	Free	—	Jun 11
1	pplx-embed-v1-0.6b	Perplexity	$0.0040	Free	—	Mar 3
6	pplx-embed-v1-4b	Perplexity	$0.030	Free	—	Mar 3
27	gemini-embedding-2-preview	Google	$0.200	Free	—	Mar 11

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Frequently Asked Questions

The cheapest embedding LLM API is pplx-embed-v1-0.6b via Perplexity at $0.0030 per million tokens (blended rate). There are 30 embedding models available.