Is text-embedding-ada-002 or GPT-5.2 cheaper?

text-embedding-ada-002 is cheaper on output tokens ($0.00 vs $14.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, text-embedding-ada-002 or GPT-5.2?

GPT-5.2 has the larger context window (400K tokens).

text-embedding-ada-002 vs GPT-5.2

text-embedding-ada-002 is cheaper on output tokens, while GPT-5.2 offers a larger context window. Choose text-embedding-ada-002 or GPT-5.2 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	text-embedding-ada-002	GPT-5.2
Provider	Azure Cognitive Services	Azure Cognitive Services
Input / 1M tokens	$0.10	$1.75
Output / 1M tokens	$0.00	$14.00
Context window	8K	400K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Dec 2022	Dec 2025

text-embedding-ada-002 details →GPT-5.2 details →

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