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| 2 models | openaiOpenAI: Text Embedding 3 Small (batch)Remove × | QwenQwen3-Embedding-8BRemove × |
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| What’s different | 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… | The Qwen3 Embedding model series is the latest proprietary model of the Qwen family, specifically designed for text embedding and ranking tasks. Building upon the dense foundational models of the Qwen3… |
| Date | Oct 30, 2025Listed | Jun 10, 2025Listed |
API prices USD · provider configuration shown below | ||
| Listed rate | $0.01 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokensOpenRouter · all routes ↗ | $0.01 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokensOpenRouter · all routes ↗ |
| Provider endpoints | 1 endpoint → | 1 endpoint → |
Benchmarks Each result retains its evaluation configuration | ||
| FreshStack · MTEB 1.38.43 ↗MTEB 1.38.43; test/default; dataset 7a20df1a | Not reported | 0.43017 ↗Revision 4e423935; test/defaultContributor reported |
Specifications | ||
| Context window | 8.2K | 41K |
| Max output | 7.4K | 32K |
| Parameters | — | 8B |
| Open weights | Not reported | Supported |