OpenAI text-embedding-3-small
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- OpenAI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sam Altman — Independent; self-described 'politically homeless' (2025); former Democratic donor; $1M personal donation to Trump inaugural fund (2025)
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Greg Brockman (President), Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist), Brad Lightcap (COO), Fidji Simo (CEO Applications), Sarah Friar (CFO), Mark Chen (SVP Research), Denise Dresser (CRO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Embeddings
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- API: $0.02/M tokens
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small (January 25, 2024), a highly efficient embedding model that upgraded text-embedding-ada-002, raising average scores from 31.4% to 44.0% on the MIRACL multilingual retrieval benchmark and from 61.0% to 62.3% on MTEB while cutting the price 5x to $0.02 per million tokens; it produces 1,536-dimension embeddings by default that can be shortened with a dimensions parameter, for search, clustering, recommendations, anomaly detection and classification.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private (~$852B valuation, Mar 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @OpenAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Embeddings from OpenAI, released 2024.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“OpenAI text-embedding-3-small.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/openai-text-embedding-3-small.html
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