text-embedding-3-large
Embedding model
text-embedding-3-large
$0.13 in per 1M tokens
text-embedding-3-small
Model idtext-embedding-3-small
Price$0.02 in per 1M tokens
Checked29 September 2026
Where it stands
6newer embedding models since its release
- EmbeddingGemma 26 Oct 2026
- Cohere Embed 5 Fast30 Sep 2026
- Cohere Embed 5 Pro30 Sep 2026
- Gemini Embedding 222 Apr 2026
- Cohere Rerank 4 (Pro / Fast)11 Dec 2025
The 5 newest are listed. All embedding models
- Weights
- Closed weights; access is hosted only.
How to call it
2 ways to use text-embedding-3-small, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | text-embedding-3-small |
https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings |
developers.openai.com |
| Azure OpenAI (Microsoft Foundry) | text-embedding-3-small |
learn.microsoft.com |
Pricing
| Input | $0.02 per 1M tokens |
|---|
As published: “per 1M tokens (USD)”.
Source: developers.openai.com, checked 29 September 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- Not published
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Released
- 25 January 2024
- Status
- Current
- Type
- Embedding model
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Cheap embeddings
Improved successor to ada-002 at $0.02 per 1M tokens.
Shortenable vectors
Default 1536 dimensions; can be shortened with the `dimensions` parameter. Max input 8192 tokens.
Notes
Output is an embedding vector.
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: