LLM Reference

text-embedding-3-small

Released
2024-01-25
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 45d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional

text-embedding-3-small is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 8k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Released
2024-01-25
Context
8k
Knowledge cutoff
2021-09
Specialization
embedding
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Created by

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
$0.020

Cheapest of 1 route · Vercel AI Gateway

About

OpenAI's efficient text embedding model with 1536 output dimensions. Higher performance than text-embedding-ada-002 at lower cost.

text-embedding-3-small is a proprietary model in the text-embedding-3 family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Vercel AI Gateway. No headline benchmark score is tracked for text-embedding-3-small yet.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Vercel AI Gateway$0.020-
ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of text-embedding-3-small?

text-embedding-3-small has a context window of 8k tokens.

How much does text-embedding-3-small cost?

text-embedding-3-small is available at $0.02/1M input tokens through Vercel AI Gateway.

When was text-embedding-3-small released?

text-embedding-3-small was released on 2024-01-25.

Which providers offer text-embedding-3-small?

text-embedding-3-small is available from 1 provider: Vercel AI Gateway.