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
Embeddings
$0.02/1M tokens

Capabilities

Infrastructure
Batch Processing

Details

Provider OpenAI
Creator openai
Licenseproprietary
Statusactive
Typeembed
Input modalitiestext
Output modalitiesembedding
Open weightNo
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Reasoning tokens—
Knowledge cutoff—
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Sourceofficial

Endpoints

BatchPOST
Async batch processing at lower costhttps://api.openai.com/v1/batches
EmbeddingsPOST
Generate vector embeddings for texthttps://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings

Pricing

EmbeddingsPer 1M tokens
Cost
Standard$0.02

Family Comparison: text-embedding

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API

GET/v1/models/openai/text-embedding-3-small

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 · 5 entries
text-embedding-3-smallupdateca7a400Nov 2, 2026, 03:02 AM
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text-embedding-3-smallupdate118451aSep 24, 2026, 07:08 AM
descriptiontext-embedding-3-small is our improved, more performant v...→text-embedding-3-small is our improved, more performant v...
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text-embedding-3-smallupdate1cd659eMar 24, 2026, 04:19 AM
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text-embedding-3-smallupdate2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
familytext-embedding
licenseproprietary
page_urlhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/models/text-embedding-3-...
open_weightno
text-embedding-3-smallcreateb50649fMar 21, 2026, 11:58 PM