Text Embedding 3 Small vs multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1: side-by-side summary

Text Embedding 3 Small and multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1 are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Text Embedding 3 Small, from OpenAI, has a 8,192-token context window and is priced at $0.02/M tokens on OpenRouter.

multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1, from sentence-transformers, has a 512-token context window and is priced at $0.005/M tokens on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Text Embedding 3 Small: 8,192 tokens
• multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1: 512 tokens

Price

• Text Embedding 3 Small: $0.02/M tokens
• multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1: $0.005/M tokens

Provided by

• Text Embedding 3 Small: OpenAI
• multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1: sentence-transformers

• Text Embedding 3 Small model details, providers and pricing
• multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1 model details, providers and pricing