text-embedding-3-small
Cheap, fast OpenAI embedding for high-volume indexing.
text-embedding-3-small is OpenAI’s low-cost embedding model and the successor to text-embedding-ada-002, producing 1536-dimension vectors.
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Type
- Embedding model
- Released
- Jan 25, 2024
- Context window
- 8K tokens
- Price
- $0.02 per 1M input tokens
- Input
- text
- Output
- embedding
- Open weights
- No
Best for
- High volume / low cost
- Research
Strengths
- Very low price
- Drop-in ada-002 replacement
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