OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small

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openai/text-embedding-3-small

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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.

Context: 8K; tokens
Dimensions: 1,536; per vector
Input: $0.02; per million tokens

Providers

Ranked by price and speed. Requests go to the best healthy provider, then fail over down the list.

#	Provider	Input
1	OpenAINon-EU Data policy not declared	$0.02

Price history

No price changes since Oct 25, 2026.

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Questions

How much does OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small cost?

OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small costs $0.02 per million input tokens at OpenAI, the provider requests go to first.

Do providers train on my prompts?

Each provider declares it, and the table above shows every declaration. You can limit a request to providers that keep nothing, or to providers in the EU.

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Call it

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.llm.buzz/api/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["LLM_BUZZ_KEY"],
)
result = client.embeddings.create(
    model="openai/text-embedding-3-small",
    input="Hello",
)

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.llm.buzz/api/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.LLM_BUZZ_KEY,
});
const result = await client.embeddings.create({
  model: "openai/text-embedding-3-small",
  input: "Hello",
});

curl https://api.llm.buzz/api/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLM_BUZZ_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "openai/text-embedding-3-small", "input": "Hello"}'

Endpoints

POST /api/v1/embeddings

Authentication

Send your llm.buzz key as a Bearer token: Authorization: Bearer $LLM_BUZZ_KEY. Create keys in the console. The same key calls every model; each request pays the price of the provider that answered it.

More in Authentication and the API reference.

Call OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small with one keyEach request pays the price of the provider that answered it.

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