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text-embedding-3-small

Provided by OpenAI
Pay-as-you-go

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.

Model specs

Model ID
text-embedding-3-small
Context length
8.191K
Max output
–
I/O modalities
Released
2025-10

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API endpoints

One MixRoute gateway, OpenAI-compatible

  • OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions POST

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Pricing

Flat rate, unit: /1M Tokens

Input

$0.0200 /1M Tokens

Completion

$0.0200 /1M Tokens

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Selection summary

Quickly judge whether it fits your workload

What is this model good for?

OpenAI's improved, more performant version of the ada embedding model

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.

What should you check before using it?

Confirm vector dimensions and token limits

text-embedding-3-small supports the OpenAI SDK. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-01. Released 2024-01-25. It is billed at 0.02 USD per 1M tokens. Test a representative workload before production.

Why use it through MixRoute?

Swap the base URL, keep the text-embedding-3-small client

MixRoute serves text-embedding-3-small on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint /v1/chat/completions; point your existing client at https://api.mixroute.ai/v1 with the model ID text-embedding-3-small and re-run your integration tests.

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Capabilities & compatibility

Unconfirmed capabilities stay "Unknown," no guesses

Available:

OpenAI SDK

Call text-embedding-3-small through MixRoute's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

EX Change base_url to https://api.mixroute.ai/v1; everything else follows the OpenAI style.

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Token cost estimator

Live estimate from this page's pricing, not an actual bill

This model has no cache-read price; caching is not counted

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FAQ

text-embedding-3-small rate limits vary by your MixRoute subscription plan. Check your plan details in the console for requests per minute (RPM) and tokens per minute (TPM) limits. Run a small load test before production to confirm your effective quota.

One endpoint, a testable decision

Test this model and alternate routes with the same request format

Start from a real workload, then let quality, total cost, and failure conditions decide whether to send production traffic.