Discussion on "I embedded all of Qdrant's docs with FastEmbed. The API would have cost 2 cents."

Mihir Inamdar · 2026-09-24T02:51:37.474Z

If you're building search on top of Qdrant, you hit this question early: do you embed your documents on your own machine, or pay OpenAI to do it? Running it locally sounds like the thrifty choice. No

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I embedded all of Qdrant's docs with FastEmbed. The API would have cost 2 cents.

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