Embedding Model Rankings
Live rankings based on real usage data from people producing vector embeddings through OpenRouter. View all embedding models
| Rank | Model | Author | requests | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Text Embedding 3 Small | openai | 151M requests | -1% |
| 2 | Qwen3 Embedding 8B | qwen | 78.7M requests | +17% |
| 3 | Gemini Embedding 2 | 50.1M requests | +7% | |
| 4 | Text Embedding 3 Large | openai | 34.4M requests | +20% |
| 5 | Gemini Embedding 001 | 33.9M requests | +6% | |
| 6 | bge-m3 | baai | 22.9M requests | +9% |
| 7 | Embed V1 0.6B | perplexity | 22.6M requests | +259% |
| 8 | voyage-4-large | mongodb | 10.5M requests | +60% |
| 9 | Qwen3 Embedding 4B | qwen | 7.08M requests | +30% |
| 10 | Gemini Embedding 2 Preview | 4.01M requests | +9% |
Usage data through
Passage
Content type · 73.6% of all spend- 1
23.1%+2.7 - 2
20.8%+4.1 - 316.7%-0.6
- 4
12.8%-1.1 - 57.2%0.0
- 64.2%-3.6
- 73.4%-1.9
- 82.1%+0.1
- 92.1%-0.5
- 101.7%+0.6
Rankings data by OpenRouter is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reuse and republish it with attribution. The Data API docs cover the citation format and JSON access to these datasets.