The bge-m3 embedding model encodes sentences, paragraphs, and long documents into a 1024-dimensional dense vector space, delivering high-quality semantic embeddings optimized for multilingual retrieval, semantic search, and large-context applications.
Modalities
Price
$0.01/M tokens
Context
8K
Released
Nov 18, 2025
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).
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Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
The bge-m3 embedding model encodes sentences, paragraphs, and long documents into a 1024-dimensional dense vector space, delivering high-quality semantic embeddings optimized for multilingual retrieval, semantic search, and large-context applications.
bge-m3 costs $0.01/M tokens.
bge-m3 accepts up to 8,194 tokens per input. Longer text has to be split into multiple inputs.
bge-m3 accepts text as input and returns embedding vectors.
bge-m3 is served by 2 providers on OpenRouter: DeepInfra and Parasail. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.
bge-m3 was released on November 18, 2025.
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