pplx Embed v1 4B pricing

Cheapest host: lab-perplexity · checked Oct 23, 2026
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$0.03per 1M tokens

Price sheet

Price$0.03per 1M tokens
Exact lab-perplexity host quote; model size does not imply a monotonic price. Official input limit and host serving limits are separate.

Cheaper for the same workvs pplx Embed v1 4B

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B unstatedOpen-67%score +2%$0.01
Qwen 3 Embedding 4B unstatedOpen-33%same score$0.02
pplx Embed v1 0.6BOpen-87%score -6%$0.004
Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6B unstatedOpen-67%score -7%$0.01
Jina Embeddings v5 Text Nano unstatedOpen-33%score -9%$0.02

Pricing questions

How much does pplx Embed v1 4B cost?›

$0.03 per 1M tokens. Exact lab-perplexity host quote; model size does not imply a monotonic price. Official input limit and host serving limits are separate.

Is pplx Embed v1 4B free to use?›

There is no free API tier, but the weights are open: you can run it on your own hardware for the cost of compute.

What is a cheaper alternative to pplx Embed v1 4B?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B at unstated effort costs -67% per task with a score +2% on MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages).