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OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small

openai/text-embedding-3-small

Created Oct 30, 20258,192 context
$0.02/M input tokens$0/M output tokens

text-embedding-3-small is OpenAI's improved, more performant version of the ada embedding model. Embeddings are a numerical representation of text that can be used to measure the relatedness between two pieces of text. Embeddings are useful for search, clustering, recommendations, anomaly detection, and classification tasks.

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Prompt
1.26B
Completion
0
Reasoning
0

Prompt tokens measure input size. Reasoning tokens show internal thinking before a response. Completion tokens reflect total output length.

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Sample code and API for Text Embedding 3 Small

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible embeddings API that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.