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rumoredOpenAIExpected: 2026

OpenAI text-embedding-4 API

Rumored successor to text-embedding-3-large/-small. Expected to push retrieval quality while keeping the same OpenAI embedding API.

What we know

Rumored successor to text-embedding-3-large/-small. Expected to push retrieval quality while keeping the same OpenAI embedding API.

Why it matters: RAG developers search "text-embedding-4" waiting for the next default OpenAI embedding upgrade.

Expected pricing: ~$0.12 per 1M tokens (unconfirmed)

Current best equivalent

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OpenAI text-embedding-3-large

Same OpenAI embeddings API — drop-in upgrade on launch.

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We'll auto-switch your API calls to OpenAI text-embedding-4 the moment it launches — no code changes required.

Call it with curl

curl -X POST https://api.skillboss.co/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SKILLBOSS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "skill_id": "openai/text-embedding-3-large",
    "input": {
      "prompt": "Say hello from OpenAI text-embedding-4 — routed via SkillBoss"
    }
  }'

Alternate options

ModelSkill IDTradeoff
text-embedding-3-smallopenai/text-embedding-3-smallCheaper, smaller vectors

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