text-embedding-3-large
text-embedding-3-large produces high-dimensional text embeddings for semantic search, clustering, and classification.
Provider
OpenAI
Model family
OpenAI models
Embedding model
Cost tier
See provider
Status
Current
Why teams choose it
Broad capability envelope
Useful when the same stack must cover chat, multimodal inputs, tooling, or structured-output shapes without juggling many SKUs.
Long-context analysis
Helps teams summarize, compare, and extract insights from long documents without losing important nuance.
Coding and tools
Works well for code assistance, tool calling, and agent workflows where instructions must stay consistent across steps.
Cost-efficient routing
Useful as part of a routing stack where cheap models handle drafts and confirmations and this tier handles genuinely hard passages.
Tradeoffs to know
- Not generative—pair with an LLM for answers.
- Cost at billion-token scale needs caching and batching.
When not to use this
- Not ideal for simple tasks where cheaper models in the same lineup are good enough.
- Avoid for regulated or high-stakes outputs without evaluations that mimic your tooling, data, and review process.
- Pair catalog notes with comparisons and your own benchmarks before declaring a routing winner.
Technical specs
- Inputs
- text
- Outputs
- vector
- Capabilities
- semantic search, deduplication, classification
- License
- See vendor
- Model string
text-embedding-3-large
Benchmarks
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