Is text-embedding-3-small or OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat cheaper?

text-embedding-3-small is cheaper on output tokens ($0.00 vs $10.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, text-embedding-3-small or OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat?

OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat has the larger context window (128K tokens).

text-embedding-3-small vs OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat

text-embedding-3-small is cheaper on output tokens, while OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat offers a larger context window. Choose text-embedding-3-small or OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	text-embedding-3-small	OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat
Provider	OpenAI	OpenAI
Input / 1M tokens	$0.02	$1.25
Output / 1M tokens	$0.00	$10.00
Context window	8K	128K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	—
Released	Jan 2024	—

text-embedding-3-small details →OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat details →

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