Text Embedding Ada 002 vs Qwen3 Embedding 4B: side-by-side summary

Text Embedding Ada 002 and Qwen3 Embedding 4B are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Text Embedding Ada 002, from OpenAI, has a 8,192-token context window and is priced at $0.10/M tokens on OpenRouter.

Qwen3 Embedding 4B, from Qwen, has a 32,768-token context window and is priced at $0.02/M tokens on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Text Embedding Ada 002: 8,192 tokens
• Qwen3 Embedding 4B: 32,768 tokens

Price

• Text Embedding Ada 002: $0.10/M tokens
• Qwen3 Embedding 4B: $0.02/M tokens

Provided by

• Text Embedding Ada 002: OpenAI
• Qwen3 Embedding 4B: Qwen

• Text Embedding Ada 002 model details, providers and pricing
• Qwen3 Embedding 4B model details, providers and pricing