How much text can bge-m3 process at once?

bge-m3 accepts up to 8,194 tokens per input. Longer text has to be split into multiple inputs.

What inputs and outputs does bge-m3 support?

bge-m3 accepts text as input and returns embedding vectors.

Which providers serve bge-m3?

bge-m3 is served by 2 providers on OpenRouter: Parasail and DeepInfra. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

When was bge-m3 released?

bge-m3 was released on November 18, 2025.

BAAI: bge-m3

baai/bge-m3

Model weights

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

Released

Nov 18, 2025

Providers

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 Floor (cheapest).

Latency


	$0.01	0.30s	99.97%
	$0.01	0.33s	100.00%

Input $0.01
0.30s latency99.97% uptime
Input $0.01
0.33s latency100.00% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$0.009788/M tokens

Output

$0/M tokens

bge-m3 — Price history

Price history

No effective price data for this selection

		$0.00944	$0.00	0.0%	14.9%
		$0.00985	$0.00	0.0%	85.1%

Effective in $0.00944Effective out $0.00
Token share
14.9%
Effective in $0.00985Effective out $0.00
Token share
85.1%

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.98%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.98%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

99.99%

Without Routing

99.40%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

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Embeddings$0.005/M tokens

bge-large-en-v1.5

The bge-large-en-v1.5 embedding model maps English sentences, paragraphs, and documents into a 1024-dimensional dense vector space, delivering high-fidelity semantic embeddings optimized for semantic search, document retrieval, and downstream NLP tasks in English.

Embeddings$0.01/M tokens

BAAI: bge-m3

Providers