Is text-embedding-3-small deprecated?

Q: Is text-embedding-3-small deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-04-30 — 94 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-04-30 — 94 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

state=dead sunset=2026-04-30 days_remaining=-94 severity=critical sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-08-02 01:41Z

openai/text-embedding-3-small

Vendor: openai. Tracked by 1 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	azure/text-embedding-3-small	8,191	0	$0.02	$0	2026-04-30

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
info	deprecated	azure/text-embedding-3-small: retires 2026-04-30 (93 days ago)	2026-08-01