OpenAI: text-embedding-3-small

embedproprietary

text-embedding-3-small is our improved, more performant version of our ada embedding model. Embeddings are a numerical representation of text that can be used to measure the relatedness between two pieces of text. Embeddings are useful for search, clustering, recommendations, anomaly detection, and classification tasks.

Intelligence
Speed
Input price
$0.02/1M tokens
Output price
$0/1M tokens

Capabilities

Infrastructure
Batch Processing

Details

Model IDopenai/text-embedding-3-small
Creator OpenAI
Licenseproprietary
Statusactive
Typeembed
Input modalitiestext
Output modalitiesembedding
Open weightNo
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Sourceofficial

Pricing

Input
$0.02
Output
$0
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Family Comparison: text-embedding

ModelContextMax outPricing
Azure OpenAI: text-embedding-3-small——$0.02$0
OpenAI: text-embedding-3-small——$0.02$0
Azure OpenAI: text-embedding-ada-002——$0.1$0
OpenAI: text-embedding-ada-002-v2——$0.1$0
OpenAI: text-embedding-ada-002——$0.1$0
OpenAI: text-embedding-ada——$0.1$0
Azure OpenAI: text-embedding-3-large——$0.13$0
OpenAI: text-embedding-3-large——$0.13$0

API

GET/v1/models/cloudflare-ai-gateway/openai/text-embedding-3-small

OpenAI: text-embedding-3-small

openai/text-embedding-3-small

text-embedding-3-small is our improved, more performant version of our ada embedding model. Embeddings are a numerical representation of text that can be used to measure the relatedness between two pieces of text. Embeddings are useful for search, clustering, recommendations, anomaly detection, and classification tasks.

Changes · 2 entries
openai/text-embedding-3-smallupdate2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
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openai/text-embedding-3-smallcreate7a4f1f6Mar 22, 2026, 05:43 AM