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Choose Codestral Embed
Codestral Embed is the newer release (May 2025, against January 2024 for text-embedding-3-small).
Codestral Embed vs text-embedding-3-small: price, context and capabilities
Choose Codestral Embed for the latest release; on the other points the two are level or the data is missing.
In short
- A price comparison is not possible: one of them has no comparable published price.
- text-embedding-3-small reads more per request: 8k tokens against 8k.
- Codestral Embed is the newer model (May 2025, against January 2024).
Which should you choose?
Each answer below comes straight from the published prices, specifications and independent benchmark results.
Specifications side by side
| Codestral Embed | text-embedding-3-small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Category | Embeddings | Embeddings |
| Status | Generally available | Generally available |
| Headline price | No data | $0.02 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 8k | 8k |
| Max output | No data | No data |
| Released | May 2025 | January 2024 |
| Knowledge cutoff | No data | No data |
| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Capabilities | No data | No data |
| API model id | codestral-embed-2505 | text-embedding-3-small |
Frequently asked questions
Should I choose Codestral Embed or text-embedding-3-small?
Choose Codestral Embed for the latest release; on the other points the two are level or the data is missing.
Which is cheaper, Codestral Embed or text-embedding-3-small?
A price comparison is not possible: one of them has no comparable published price.
Which has the larger context window, Codestral Embed or text-embedding-3-small?
text-embedding-3-small reads more per request: 8k tokens against 8k.
What is the difference between Codestral Embed and text-embedding-3-small?
Codestral Embed is made by Mistral AI and text-embedding-3-small by OpenAI. A price comparison is not possible: one of them has no comparable published price. text-embedding-3-small reads more per request: 8k tokens against 8k. Codestral Embed is the newer model (May 2025, against January 2024).
Which is newer, Codestral Embed or text-embedding-3-small?
Codestral Embed was released on May 2025 and text-embedding-3-small on January 2024.