Is text-embedding-ada-002 or GPT-5 cheaper?

text-embedding-ada-002 is cheaper on output tokens ($0.00 vs $10.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, text-embedding-ada-002 or GPT-5?

GPT-5 has the larger context window (272K tokens).

text-embedding-ada-002 vs GPT-5

text-embedding-ada-002 is cheaper on output tokens, while GPT-5 offers a larger context window. Choose text-embedding-ada-002 or GPT-5 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	text-embedding-ada-002	GPT-5
Provider	Azure Cognitive Services	Azure Cognitive Services
Input / 1M tokens	$0.10	$1.25
Output / 1M tokens	$0.00	$10.00
Context window	8K	272K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Dec 2022	Aug 2025

text-embedding-ada-002 details →GPT-5 details →

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