---
title: "OpenAI compatible route. Returns a 424 status code if the model is not an embedding model."
method: POST
path: "/embeddings"
tags: ["Text Embeddings Inference"]
---

# OpenAI compatible route. Returns a 424 status code if the model is not an embedding model.

`POST /embeddings`

OpenAI compatible route. Returns a 424 status code if the model is not an embedding model.

## Request body

- OpenAICompatRequest
  - `input` union, required
    - string
    - string[]
  - `model` string, nullable
  - `user` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Embeddings

- OpenAICompatResponse
  - `data` OpenAICompatEmbedding[], required
    - `embedding` number[], required
    - `index` integer, required
    - `object` string, required
  - `model` string, required
  - `object` string, required
  - `usage` OpenAICompatUsage, required
    - `prompt_tokens` integer, required
    - `total_tokens` integer, required

## Other responses

- `413` — Batch size error
- `422` — Tokenization error
- `424` — Embedding Error
- `429` — Model is overloaded

## Changes

- **2023-11-15** `c4554b0fed8e` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/huggingface/apis/text-embeddings-inference/changes/embeddings/post.md)

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