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Why use text-embedding-3-small on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers text-embedding-3-small with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.02/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Compare text-embedding-3-small across 2 providers to find the best fit for your use caseInput / 1M
$0.020
Output / 1M
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Cache
Not sourced
Batch
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Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install openaiAuth
export AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...Call
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],Model ID
openai/text-embedding-3-smallRequest example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/text-embedding-3-small",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "openai/text-embedding-3-small", not the LLMReference slug "text-embedding-3-small".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare text-embedding-3-small Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.02 | — |
| OpenAI API | $0.02 | — |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.02 |
Capabilities
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About text-embedding-3-small
OpenAI's efficient text embedding model with 1536 output dimensions. Higher performance than text-embedding-ada-002 at lower cost.
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Model Specs
Released2024-01-25
Context8k
Knowledge cutoff2021-09