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id: "openai/text-embedding-3-small"
also: ["openai/text-embedding-3-small", "vercel/openai/text-embedding-3-small"]
card_usd_per_m: "0.02 in, 0.0 out, at openai"
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cheapest_effective_usd_per_m: "0.0192 in, 0.0 out, at azure on openrouter"
context: 8192
max_output: 7372
input: ["text"]
output: ["embeddings"]
released: "2025-10-30"
api: ["/api/v1/embeddings"]
params: ["max_tokens", "stop", "temperature"]
endpoints: 4
gateways: "openrouter (2), vercel (2)"
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---
# OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small

text-embedding-3-small is OpenAI's improved, more performant version of the ada embedding model. Embeddings are a numerical representation of text that can be used to measure the relatedness between two pieces...