text-embedding-3-small
by OpenAIEmbedding
Embedding model for semantic search, retrieval, clustering, and ranking pipelines
- Context
- 8.2K tokens
- Max output
- 7,372 tokens
- Released
- 2024-01-25
- Weights
- Closed
openai/text-embedding-3-small · also seen as us-gov/text-embedding-3-small, eu/text-embedding-3-small, us/text-embedding-3-small, openai/text-embedding-3-small:batch
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2024-01-25
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 8,192 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 7,372
- Providers
- 4 + 3 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.02 in per 1M tokens · across all 4 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2024-01-25
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-01
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured outputunknown
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.02 in / — out per 1M tokens at OpenAI on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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