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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.
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.
Live rankings based on real usage data from people producing vector embeddings through OpenRouter. View all embedding models
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.
| Rank | Model | Author | requests | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Text Embedding 3 Small | openai | 147M requests | -12% |
| 2 | Qwen3 Embedding 8B | qwen | 56.2M requests | +19% |
| 3 | Gemini Embedding 2 | 52.6M requests | +130% | |
| 4 | Gemini Embedding 001 | 25.4M requests | +5% | |
| 5 | bge-m3 | baai | 22.5M requests | -2% |
| 6 | Text Embedding 3 Large | openai | 19.1M requests | -6% |
| 7 | all-MiniLM-L12-v2 | sentence-transformers | 12.7M requests | +79% |
| 8 | Embed V1 0.6B | perplexity | 8.04M requests | -3% |
| 9 | Qwen3 Embedding 4B | qwen | 6.8M requests | +21% |
| 10 | Gemini Embedding 2 Preview | 4.21M requests | -14% |
Usage data through
Summary of the embedding Market Share chart above. Share of embedding requests made on OpenRouter in the week beginning Oct 5, 2026, with the change in each author's requests against the week before it. OpenAI leads at 49.7% of the week's requests. Authors the chart groups as others are listed last, so the rows match the series the chart plots.
| Rank | Author | Share of requests | Change in requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | 49.7% | +2% |
| 2 | 19.2% | +29% | |
| 3 | Qwen | 16.1% | +14% |
| 4 | BAAI | 5.8% | -13% |
| 5 | Perplexity | 3.4% | +9% |
| 6 | Voyageai | 3.0% | +6% |
| 7 | Sentence Transformers | 2.0% | -4% |
| 8 | Mistral AI | 0.3% | +17% |
| 9 | Intfloat | 0.3% | -15% |
| All other authors | 0.2% | +3% |