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text-embedding-3-small

Embedding Model • Released 2024-01-25 • Last Verified 2025-02-01

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text-embedding-3-small by OpenAI - Embedding Model for enterprise and developer workflows.

Context Window8k
LicenseProprietary
Deployment
Cloud Only
API AvailableYes (REST/SDK)

Benchmark Performance

MTEB62.3

Strengths

  • •High accuracy
  • •Fast inference

Limitations & Weaknesses

  • •Closed source API
API Sample CodePython / REST
import openai

client = openai.OpenAI()

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="text-embedding-3-small",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful expert assistant."},
        {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in 2 sentences."}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing Overview

$0.02 / 1M tokens

Prices subject to provider tiers and volume discounts. Check documentation for current token rates.

Model Tags

#embeddings#cheap

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