text-embedding-3-small vs router-provider-fallback

Metric

text-embedding-3-small router-provider-fallback

Input price

$0.02

$0.85

Output price

$0.00

$3.40

Context window

131K

Throughput

165 tok/s

148 tok/s

Availability

98.0%

99.1%

Cost / task

$0.000

$0.003

Efficiency score

Estimated monthly cost by workload

Metric

TEXT-EMBEDDING

ROUTER-PROVIDE

Chat assistant

$6.00

$663.00

RAG / long context

$24.00

$1,326

Agent / tool use

$14.40

$1,836

Efficiency score: text-embedding-3-small

Across price, speed and reliability, text-embedding-3-small offers the stronger overall balance for most workloads — but the right pick depends on your exact mix of input, output and latency needs.

Figures are illustrative demo data, not financial advice.

Frequently asked questions

Is text-embedding-3-small or router-provider-fallback cheaper?+

text-embedding-3-small has the lower input price — $0.02 vs $0.85 per 1M tokens — so for most blended workloads it is the more cost-effective of the two. Figures are illustrative demo data.

Which should I choose, text-embedding-3-small or router-provider-fallback?+

Across price, speed and reliability, text-embedding-3-small offers the stronger overall balance for most workloads — but the right pick depends on your exact mix of input, output and latency needs.