# Embedding Model Outage: text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3 model name with all 0 values
**URL:** https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079
**Category:** Bugs
**Tags:** embeddings, api-embedding
**Created:** [February 12, 2026, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079 "2026-02-12T16:48:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@alex.shang](https://community.openai.com/u/alex.shang)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/1 "2026-02-12T16:48:46Z")
Hey I think we’re experiencing an outage right now due to a server-side issue with \*\*text-embedding-3-small
\*\*
We’re getting strange return values with response model: text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3 and an embedding vector of size 384 (instead of 1536 as expected) with all 0 values.
Anyone else seeing this? What’s going on?
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### Author:  [@Brendon\_Boshell](https://community.openai.com/u/Brendon_Boshell)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/2 "2026-02-12T16:52:11Z")
I have the same issue, it looks like they are aware of a problem on their status page. [https://status.openai.com/](https://status.openai.com/)
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### Author:  [@alex.shang](https://community.openai.com/u/alex.shang)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/3 "2026-02-12T17:06:03Z")
thanks! for what it’s worth, we’re still seeing the issues with the ednpoint contrary to the status page.
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### Author:  [@kaden](https://community.openai.com/u/kaden)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/4 "2026-02-12T17:06:20Z")
Experiencing the same issue. Not sure how there are not more reports of this.
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### Author:  [@VeitB](https://community.openai.com/u/VeitB)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/5 "2026-02-12T17:08:53Z")
Thanks for posting the link @Brendon_Boshell!
It looks like a fix has already been implemented.
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### Author:  [@Brendon\_Boshell](https://community.openai.com/u/Brendon_Boshell)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/6 "2026-02-12T17:13:37Z")
Yes, I’m also seeing ongoing issues, around half of the responses are just vectors of zeroes.
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Pieprzycki](https://community.openai.com/u/Alex_Pieprzycki)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/7 "2026-02-12T17:15:28Z")
Is anyone also seeing invalid 400 errors related to “Invalid ‘input’: maximum context length is 8192 tokens.” Just started after the issues earlier.
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### Author:  [@kaden](https://community.openai.com/u/kaden)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/8 "2026-02-12T17:17:52Z")
The issue is not related to latency. Embeddings are being returned with 384 dimensions (all 0s), instead of 1536
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### Author:  [@\_j](https://community.openai.com/u/_j)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/9 "2026-02-12T17:27:46Z")
3-small seems working. I made several calls with and without the dimensions parameters, with and without base64, all are 1536 dimensions and can provide a similarity score.
```auto
For 3 texts, received 99909 char body
Snippet: {
"object": "list",
"data": [
{
"object": "embedding",
"index": 0,
"embedding": [
-0.0026644536,
-0.02758758,
0.00036771712,
0.0039073024,
0.04801365,
0.017813696,
0.063282534,
0.003417482,
0.030695407,
-0.016327344,
-0.005967926,
-0.034929253,
-0.036528207,
0.0005278236,
-0.024614878,
-0.0004380936,
-0.051436763,
0.011721906,
(3, 1536)
Similarity: 0.33056685
Similarity: 0.33388305
text-embedding-3-small
```
Existing unpacker of b64:
```auto
For 3 texts, received 24966 char body
Snippet: {
"object": "list",
"data": [
{
"object": "embedding",
"index": 0,
"embedding": "jSYuu6Us4rzZ2rI5pMSAO0eoRD0q1ZE8x7CBPYIxXTvIcvs8dU2GvHYuw7teKA+9tYUVveTPAzpTYMq8yIH/uY2tUr0krT88WHmYu1P3rboTKDs8ZPWNPEe3yDz2rWU90/6vvDwsz7wqPq68U6tePUeZwLtw2h+9PDvTvPzVt7zqm0e9qqADPU2UhrwN4mA8PB3LPLtwHD1NlAY93k0ZPQ3UlzwBdiq9X2Pku/bLbby82P06MHTJuxltWjwSdIo99p8cPVOOETsT3Sa8AgzTuw08+bzfl/I8xxjjOw2XzDzk3ge9ZBOWPOqMw7x2ELs7X0XcurB7S7w7lqa8U7sdvdiAmjtTuuI7JPhTPbAgeLwSdAq9DS11POqrBrxZ8Ti9qr6LO55Rm
(3, 1536)
Similarity: 0.33061928
Similarity: 0.33393234
text-embedding-3-small
```
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Halliday](https://community.openai.com/u/Ryan_Halliday)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/10 "2026-02-12T17:27:55Z")
It appears to only be an error with `encoding_format: ‘base64’`
If you change this for `float` it fixes the issue for now.
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### Author:  [@OpenAI\_Support](https://community.openai.com/u/OpenAI_Support)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/11 "2026-02-13T16:02:38Z")
Hey all, just checking in.
Is anyone still running into this? If so, could you share a few request IDs and the timestamps if possible? That'll help us dig into the logs and see what’s going on.
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### Author:  [@alex.shang](https://community.openai.com/u/alex.shang)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/12 "2026-02-13T16:14:12Z")
errors stopped appearing for me ~12:30 pm EST yesterday
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### Author:  [@VeitB](https://community.openai.com/u/VeitB)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2026, 9:28am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/13 "2026-02-26T09:28:56Z")
2 posts were split to a new topic: [Random 384 dimension embeddings from text-embedding-3-small](https://community.openai.com/t/random-384-dimension-embeddings-from-text-embedding-3-small/1375153)
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### Author:  [@VeitB](https://community.openai.com/u/VeitB)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2026, 9:29am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-model-outage-text-embedding-3-small-api-ev3-model-name-with-all-0-values/1374079/14 "2026-02-26T09:29:02Z")