text-embedding-3-small
Output is an embedding vector.
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- input: $0.02 (per 1M tokens (USD)) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | text-embedding-3-small | https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings | docs |
| Azure OpenAI (Microsoft Foundry) | text-embedding-3-small | — | docs |
Notable capabilities (2)
- Cheap embeddings: Improved successor to ada-002 at $0.02 per 1M tokens. source
- Shortenable vectors: Default 1536 dimensions; can be shortened with the `dimensions` parameter. Max input 8192 tokens. source
curl https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"text-embedding-3-small","input":"hello"}'
Sources:
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