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Text Embedding 3 Small API

openai/text-embedding-3-small embeds text at $0.02 per million input tokens — the cheapest embedding id on this gateway. Billing is input-only; there is no output price and no published context window. The larger sibling, text-embedding-3-large, is listed at $0.13 per 1M input tokens if your retrieval quality needs it.

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Input price$0.02 / 1M tokens
Output price$0 / 1M tokens
Context length— tokens
Max output8.2k tokens

What is Text Embedding 3 Small API in NextModel?

openai/text-embedding-3-small embeds text at $0.02 per million input tokens — the cheapest embedding id on this gateway. Billing is input-only; there is no output price and no published context window. The larger sibling, text-embedding-3-large, is listed at $0.13 per 1M input tokens if your retrieval quality needs it.

Text Embedding 3 Small via NextModel: context unpublished; $0.02 / 1M tokens in / $0 / 1M tokens out per 1M tokens. Capabilities: streaming.

Best use cases

  • High-volume embedding where $0.02 per 1M input tokens keeps corpus costs flat.
  • Prototypes and evaluation sets where embedding quality risk is cheap to test.
  • Pipelines that may upgrade later to the $0.13 large id through the same gateway.

When not to use

  • You have measured that the large id's quality lifts your metrics: it is $0.13 per 1M.
  • You need a published context window: none is published for this id.
  • You need chat or tool calls — this is an embedding id.

OpenAI-compatible code example

request.sh
curl https://api.nextmodel.app/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NEXTMODEL_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model":"openai/text-embedding-3-small","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Reply with OK."}]}'

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Text Embedding 3 Large via NextModel: context unpublished; $0.13 / 1M tokens in / $0 / 1M tokens out per 1M tokens. Capabilities: streaming.

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FAQ

Text Embedding 3 Small API questions

What model id do I send for Text Embedding 3 Small?

Send openai/text-embedding-3-small to https://api.nextmodel.app/v1 with your OpenAI SDK. If that id is missing from /v1/models, the page is stale.

How is it billed?

Input only: $0.02 per 1M tokens. No output price applies to embedding ids.

Small or large?

small is $0.02 per 1M input tokens; large is $0.13. Benchmark on your own corpus — the catalog publishes no quality ranking.

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