Text Embedding 3 Small

OpenAI chattool_use

API ID: openai/text-embedding-3-small

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Input Price
$0.02
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Text Embedding 3 Small

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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Price Ranking
#583 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
8k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2025-10-30
Capabilities
chat tool_use
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
embeddings

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

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$0.01
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
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$0.30
/month
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Text Embedding 3 Small API

OpenAI Python SDK 
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/text-embedding-3-small",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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