Embedding & Storage Calculator

Calculate costs for generating embeddings and storing vector data

Parameters

Number of Text Chunks(e.g., 1000)

Average Tokens per Chunk(e.g., 200)

Embedding Model

Cost: $0.00002 / 1K tokensDimensions: 1536

Storage Type

$0.096/GB/month • High-performance vector storage for embeddings

Storage Duration (months)(e.g., 12)

Cost Breakdown

Total Tokens

200,000

Storage Size

0.01 GB

Embedding Generation Cost

$0.004000

1000 chunks × 200 tokens

Storage Cost (12 months)

$0.0066

$0.0005/month × 12 months

Total Estimated Cost

$0.0106

Embedding + Storage (12 months)

Cost Breakdown

• Embedding: $0.004000 (one-time)
• Storage: $0.0005/month
• Total: $0.0106 over 12 months

Cost Comparison by Model

OpenAI text-embedding-3-small

$0.0106

Embedding: $0.004000 • Storage: $0.0066

OpenAI text-embedding-3-large

$0.0392

Embedding: $0.026000 • Storage: $0.0132

OpenAI text-embedding-ada-002

$0.0266

Embedding: $0.020000 • Storage: $0.0066

Cohere embed-english-v3.0

$0.0244

Embedding: $0.020000 • Storage: $0.0044

Anthropic Claude Embeddings

$0.0676

Embedding: $0.050000 • Storage: $0.0176

Storage Type Comparison

Vector Database (Pinecone)

$0.0106

$0.096/GB/month • $0.0066 storage

Vector Database (Weaviate)

$0.0095

$0.08/GB/month • $0.0055 storage

Vector Database (Qdrant)

$0.0074

$0.05/GB/month • $0.0034 storage

Application Logs

$0.0061

$0.03/GB/month • $0.0021 storage

Document Storage

$0.0056

$0.023/GB/month • $0.0016 storage

Database Storage

$0.0119

$0.115/GB/month • $0.0079 storage