OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small
openai/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.
Model specifications
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Context
- 8,192 tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Input price
- $0.02 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $0 / 1M tokens
- Released
- 2026-02-18
Capabilities
- Streaming
- Playground
Provider pricing, discounts and data privacy
Compare effective provider prices, published discounts, regions, retention policies, training use, compliance, and privacy links by service tier.
Standard service tier
1 available provider · tier input average $0.02 / 1M tokens
Azure
Tier: Standard · Region: US
Pricing
- Input
- $0.02 / 1M tokens
No provider discount is currently published.
Data privacy and compliance
- Region
- US
- Zero data retention
- Yes
- Data retention
- Zero retention
- Used for training
- No
- Data collection
- Moderated
- No
- GDPR compliant
- Yes
- HIPAA compliant
- Yes
- SOC 2 certified
- Yes
- BYOK supported
- No
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Frequently asked questions
- What is OpenAI: 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.
- How much does OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small cost?
- Input costs start at $0.02 / 1M tokens and output costs start at $0 / 1M tokens. Provider-level prices vary by service tier.
- What is the context length of OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small?
- OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small supports a 8,192 token context window and up to 8,192 output tokens.
- What capabilities does OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small support?
- OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small supports Streaming, Playground.
- Which providers offer OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small?
- OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small is available from Azure.
- How do providers handle data privacy for OpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small?
- 1 of 1 providers report that customer data is not used for training, and 1 offer zero-data-retention routing. Retention, compliance, and privacy-policy links are listed per provider.