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OpenAI Embedding

OpenAI provides the embedding model that converts a LlamaCloud Index documents into vectors, configured with an OpenAI API key and model name.

Embed data using OpenAI’s API.

  1. Select OpenAI Embedding from the Embedding Model dropdown.
  2. Enter your OpenAI API key.
  3. Select your preferred model:
  • text-embedding-3-small (Default)
  • text-similarity-3-large
  • text-embedding-ada-002

openai

pipeline = client.pipelines.upsert(
name="test-pipeline",
project_id="my-project-id",
data_sink_id=None, # optional
embedding_config={
'type': 'OPENAI_EMBEDDING',
'component': {
'api_key': '<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>', # editable
'model_name': 'text-embedding-3-small' # editable
},
},
llama_parse_parameters={},
transform_config={"mode": "auto", "chunk_overlap": 128, "chunk_size": 1028},
)
Note for AI agents: this documentation is built for programmatic access. - Overview of all docs: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt - Any page is available as raw Markdown by appending index.md to its URL — e.g. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md - Agent-friendly REST search APIs live under https://developers.llamaindex.ai/api/ — search (BM25 full-text), grep (regex), read (fetch a page), and list (browse the doc tree). See https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt for parameters. - A hosted documentation MCP server is available at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/mcp. If you support MCP, you can ask the user to install it for browsing these docs directly (an alternative to the REST API). Setup: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/shared/mcp/