Text Embedding 3 Small: API pricing, providers and specs
Text Embedding 3 Small is a embedding model by OpenAI. 13 providers serve it, from $0.016 to $0.025 /1M; the lowest price is at APIMart.
How Text Embedding 3 Small compares
Against the 15 embedding models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.016 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 87% of comparable models (median $0.059).
- Its 8K-token context window is larger than 11% of them (median 8K), about 10 pages of text.
- 13 providers serve it; 88% of comparable models have fewer.
Text Embedding 3 Small prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZenMux | $0.02/1M | Free/1M | — | 8K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.02/1M | FromFree/1M | — | — |
 Ofox | $0.02/1M | Free/1M | — | 8K |
 FastRouter | $0.02/1M | Free/1M | — | 8K |
 Impossibl | $0.02/1M | Free/1M | — | — |
| APIMart | $0.016/1M | $0.016/1M | — | — |
 CometAPI | $0.016/1M | $0.016/1M | — | — |
 APIYI | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | — |
 LaoZhang API | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | — |
 CrazyRouter | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | — |
 OrcaRouter | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | — |
 Venice AI | $0.025/1M | $0.025/1M | — | — |
- APIMart$0.016
- CometAPI$0.016
- APIYI$0.02
- LaoZhang API$0.02
- CrazyRouter$0.02
- AIHubMix$0.02
- OrcaRouter$0.02
- Venice AI$0.025
Specs
- Type
- Embedding
- Maker
- OpenAI
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 8K≈ 10 pages of text
- Max output
- —
- Capabilities
- —
- Released
- Jan 25, 2024
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
Alternatives to Text Embedding 3 Small
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text Embedding 3 Smallthis model | $0.016/1M | 8K | — | 13 |
| BGE M3 | $0.01/1M | — | — | 3 |
 Qwen 3 Embedding 4B | $0.019/1M | 33K | — | 2 |
| Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B | $0.01/1M | 33K | — | 4 |
| Qwen3 Embedding 8B | $0.039/1M | 33K | — | 5 |
| Bge Large En V1.5 | $0.034/1M | — | — | 1 |
| Bge Large Zh V1.5 | $0.034/1M | — | — | 1 |
 Gemini Embedding | $0.02/1M | — | — | 1 |
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Text Embedding 3 Small FAQ
The lowest price for Text Embedding 3 Small is $0.016 /1M, at APIMart.
APIMart, at $0.016 /1M. 13 providers serve Text Embedding 3 Small; the table above lists every one with its price.
Text Embedding 3 Small reads up to 8K tokens per request.
We have not found Text Embedding 3 Small's weights published by its maker.
13 API providers serve Text Embedding 3 Small. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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