Head to head

text-embedding-3-small vs Claude Opus 4.5

On a blended workload of one million input tokens and three million output tokens, Claude Opus 4.5 is Infinity× cheaper than text-embedding-3-small.

text-embedding-3-smallClaude Opus 4.5
Provider OpenAI Anthropic
Input / MTok $0.02 $5
Output / MTok $25
Cache read / MTok $0.5
Context window 200,000
Blended 1M in + 3M out $∞ $80.00
Status ga ga

text-embedding-3-small detail   Claude Opus 4.5 detail