text-embedding-3-small
by OpenAI · paid · Last verified 2026-04-24
OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small offers a cost-optimized embedding model producing 1536-dimensional vectors. Despite its smaller size, it outperforms the older ada-002 model on most benchmarks. It is widely used for production RAG systems where cost per embedding is a key constraint.
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings ↗C
C—Below Average
Adoption: C+Quality: B+Freshness: ACitations: CEngagement: F
Specifications
- License
- Proprietary
- Pricing
- paid
- Capabilities
- Integrations
- Use Cases
- API Available
- No
- Parameters
- Undisclosed
- Context Window
- 8K tokens
- Modalities
- text
- Training Cutoff
- Late 2023
- Tags
- embeddings, openai, cost-efficient, rag, production
- Added
- 2026-04-24
- Completeness
- 60%
Index Score
44Adoption
50
Quality
70
Freshness
80
Citations
40
Engagement
0