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fix(ai-openai): split embed() inputs into requests of at most 2048 - #1986
With the OpenAI adapter, embed() failed with a 400 when you sent more than 2048 texts. This PR sends the texts in sequential requests of at most 2048 inputs each. It then joins the vectors in input order and adds up the token usage.
🎯 Changes
OpenAIEmbeddingAdapter.createEmbeddings sends the input in slices of at most 2048 (OPENAI_MAX_BATCH_SIZE), one request after the other.
Each vector's index is offset by the start of its slice, so the indexes match the caller's input array.
promptTokens and totalTokens are summed across all requests.
When there are 2048 inputs or fewer, the adapter sends one request, the same as before.
A ponytail: comment and the changeset name the limit this PR does not handle: OpenAI also caps a request at 300,000 tokens summed across its inputs.
Docs are not changed. No docs page describes how embedding requests are split, so no page becomes wrong.
I have tested code changes locally with pnpm run test:pr, or these tests do not apply to this pull request.
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Root cause
Issue.embed() with the OpenAI adapter and more than 2048 texts fails with a 400 from the OpenAI API. Cause.createEmbeddings sent the whole texts array as input in one embeddings.create call. The endpoint accepts at most 2048 inputs in one request. Fix. The adapter now sends slices of at most 2048, then joins the results and the usage.
Possible alternatives
Concurrent requests. These are faster for large inputs, but they add a concurrency setting and more exposure to rate limits.
Throw above 2048. This moves the same loop into every caller.
Split by token budget as well. This handles the 300k-token cap, but it needs a tokeniser or a character estimate. That cap is documented here and left for a follow-up.
Shared batching helper in @tanstack/openai-base. The lovable, vercel-gateway, mistral and neon embedding adapters also send everything in one request. A shared helper is the general fix. It is a follow-up, not part of this PR.
Testing
Commands run
vitest run tests/embedding-adapter.test.ts in packages/ai-openai: 7/7 tests pass.
pnpm --dir packages/ai-openai test:types: clean.
oxlint and oxfmt on the changed files: clean.
A repro written by the reviewer sent 3000 inputs to a mock that rejects more than 2048. The adapter on main failed with the 400. The adapter on this branch passed, with order and indexes 0-2999 intact.
Not run: the full pnpm test:pr and E2E. aimock does not enforce the 2048 limit, so an E2E test would also pass on main. The unit test covers the behaviour.
Manual test
Set OPENAI_API_KEY. Run embed({ adapter: openaiEmbedding('text-embedding-3-small'), input: Array.from({ length: 3000 }, (_, i) => t${i}) }). On main you get a 400. On this branch you get 3000 vectors.
Edge case: send 2048 inputs of about 400 tokens each. You still get a 400 from the 300k-token cap. That is expected, and it is documented in the changeset.
How this PR makes testing easy
packages/ai-openai/tests/embedding-adapter.test.ts has a mock that rejects more than 2048 inputs, like the real API. With 5000 inputs it checks the request sizes (2048, 2048, 904), the order, the indexes, and that dimensions/modelOptions are sent on every request. It also checks the summed usage, with a different value for each field.
A second test checks that an empty input array sends no request and returns an empty result.
Risk / rollback
The risk is low. With 2048 inputs or fewer, the adapter sends the same single request as before. Above 2048, the call now takes several requests in sequence. If one of them fails, the whole call rejects and the vectors already received are lost. To roll back, revert this PR.
This change was prepared with the help of an AI coding assistant (Claude); the submitter is responsible for it.
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New Features
Embedding requests with more than 2,048 texts are processed in sequential batches, with results combined in their original order.
Token usage is totaled across batches, and configured dimensions and abort signals are passed to each request.
Empty input returns no embeddings and zero token usage without making an API request.
Each batch is limited by text count; requests may still fail if they exceed OpenAI’s separate 300,000-token limit.
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Walkthrough
The OpenAI embedding adapter now splits inputs into sequential requests of at most 2048 texts. It combines embeddings and token usage across requests. Tests cover batching, result order and indexes, usage totals, and empty input.
Changes: OpenAI embedding request batching
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Summary
Bounded requests and result aggregation packages/ai-openai/src/adapters/embedding.ts, packages/ai-openai/tests/embedding-adapter.test.ts, .changeset/ai-openai-embed-batch.md
The adapter sends batches of up to 2048 texts, offsets embedding indexes, and sums prompt and total token usage. The tests check batching with 5,000 inputs and empty input. The changeset records a patch release and notes that the separate 300,000-token request limit is not enforced.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant OpenAIEmbeddingAdapter
participant OpenAIEmbeddingsAPI
Caller->>OpenAIEmbeddingAdapter: provide texts and embedding options
loop batches of up to 2048 texts
OpenAIEmbeddingAdapter->>OpenAIEmbeddingsAPI: request embeddings for one batch
OpenAIEmbeddingsAPI-->>OpenAIEmbeddingAdapter: embeddings and token usage
end
OpenAIEmbeddingAdapter-->>Caller: combined embeddings and token usage
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Empty input now succeeds instead of returning an error. Callers relying on rejection may need to validate input themselves.
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Assert dimensions on every batch request in the batching test.
The batching test checks only the input length of each request. It does not check dimensions. A change that drops dimensions from batches after the first would still pass the suite. Adding the option to the call and asserting it on each recorded request covers the multi-batch path:
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Review comment at @packages/ai-openai/tests/embedding-adapter.test.ts around
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Update the batching test around adapter.createEmbeddings to pass a dimensions
option and assert that every recorded request in spy.mock.calls retains that
value, while preserving the existing batch-size assertions.
Compare every returned embedding in the batching test.
The test name states that order and indexes are kept across batches. The assertions check the vector and index only at positions 2048 and 4999. A change that reorders or swaps entries in the first or second batch would still pass every assertion. A full comparison checks each position's vector and index. The mock's batch-local indexes also confirm that indexes are offset for every batch.
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Update the batching test to compare every entry in result.embeddings against the
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- Around line 89-93: Update createEmbeddings to reject empty input after
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preserving the existing error-reporting behavior for other inputs.
- Line 97: Update the embedding request batching around texts.slice to respect
both OPENAI_MAX_BATCH_SIZE and the 300,000-token request limit. Establish and
use an accurate per-text token count for the relevant model, then form ordered
batches that stay within both limits; do not rely on text length as a token
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spy.mock.calls retains that value, while preserving the existing batch-size
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result.embeddings against the expected vector and global index for each
position, preserving verification of order and index offsets across batches.
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OpenAI embeddings API create input parameter empty array error documentation
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Sources consulted:
- Create embeddings | OpenAI API Reference — https://developers.openai.com/api/reference/resources/embeddings/methods/create
- Embedding API change? $.input is invalid - API - OpenAI Developer Community — https://community.openai.com/t/embedding-api-change-input-is-invalid/707490
- openai-python/src/openai/resources/embeddings.py at main · openai/openai-python · GitHub — https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/src/openai/resources/embeddings.py
- Vector embeddings | OpenAI API — https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/embeddings
- Embedding.create() fails when it receives a list of strings that contains an empty string · Issue #576 · openai/openai-python · GitHub — GitHub issue 576 in openai/openai-python (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Reject empty input in createEmbeddings before the batch loop.
With input: [], the new loop makes no request and returns embeddings: [] with zero usage. Before this change, the API rejected the empty array with a 400 error. Throw before the loop so an empty input reports an error, as the OpenAI endpoint and sibling activities do.
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const texts = requireTextOnlyEmbeddingInput(options.input, this.name, model)
+ if (texts.length === 0) {+ throw new Error(`${this.name} embed() requires at least one input`)+ }
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Update createEmbeddings to reject empty input after
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Partition embedding requests by total token count as well as input count.
Each request holds at most 2048 inputs. The endpoint also rejects a request whose inputs total more than 300,000 tokens. The slice at embedding.ts:97 does not check the token total. A 2048-input slice of long texts can therefore fail, even when smaller slices would succeed.
This failure is not a regression from the PR. Requests of 2048 or fewer inputs keep the same single request, so the token limit already applied to them before the change. The PR fixes only the input-count limit for larger arrays. Splitting by token total needs a per-text token count, which the current code does not compute.
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Update the embedding request batching around texts.slice to respect both
OPENAI_MAX_BATCH_SIZE and the 300,000-token request limit. Establish and use an
accurate per-text token count for the relevant model, then form ordered batches
that stay within both limits; do not rely on text length as a token estimate.
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- ponytail comment and changeset name OpenAI's 300k-token-per-request cap
- test asserts dimensions/modelOptions on every batch and distinct usage sums
- test pins empty input: no request, empty result
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Thanks @pcbeingused333! I reproduced the >2048 failure on main and confirmed this fixes it. I added a note about OpenAI's 300k-token-per-request cap, an empty-input test, and per-batch option/usage assertions.
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With the OpenAI adapter,
embed()failed with a 400 when you sent more than 2048 texts. This PR sends the texts in sequential requests of at most 2048 inputs each. It then joins the vectors in input order and adds up the token usage.🎯 Changes
OpenAIEmbeddingAdapter.createEmbeddingssends the input in slices of at most 2048 (OPENAI_MAX_BATCH_SIZE), one request after the other.indexis offset by the start of its slice, so the indexes match the caller's input array.promptTokensandtotalTokensare summed across all requests.ponytail:comment and the changeset name the limit this PR does not handle: OpenAI also caps a request at 300,000 tokens summed across its inputs.Docs are not changed. No docs page describes how embedding requests are split, so no page becomes wrong.
✅ Checklist
pnpm run test:pr, or these tests do not apply to this pull request.docs/for this change, or this change is not user-facing.pnpm changeset), or this PR does not change a published package.🚀 Release Impact
Root cause
Issue.
embed()with the OpenAI adapter and more than 2048 texts fails with a 400 from the OpenAI API.Cause.
createEmbeddingssent the wholetextsarray asinputin oneembeddings.createcall. The endpoint accepts at most 2048 inputs in one request.Fix. The adapter now sends slices of at most 2048, then joins the results and the usage.
Possible alternatives
@tanstack/openai-base. The lovable, vercel-gateway, mistral and neon embedding adapters also send everything in one request. A shared helper is the general fix. It is a follow-up, not part of this PR.Testing
Commands run
vitest run tests/embedding-adapter.test.tsinpackages/ai-openai: 7/7 tests pass.pnpm --dir packages/ai-openai test:types: clean.oxlintandoxfmton the changed files: clean.mainfailed with the 400. The adapter on this branch passed, with order and indexes 0-2999 intact.Not run: the full
pnpm test:prand E2E. aimock does not enforce the 2048 limit, so an E2E test would also pass onmain. The unit test covers the behaviour.Manual test
OPENAI_API_KEY. Runembed({ adapter: openaiEmbedding('text-embedding-3-small'), input: Array.from({ length: 3000 }, (_, i) =>t${i}) }). Onmainyou get a 400. On this branch you get 3000 vectors.How this PR makes testing easy
packages/ai-openai/tests/embedding-adapter.test.tshas a mock that rejects more than 2048 inputs, like the real API. With 5000 inputs it checks the request sizes (2048, 2048, 904), the order, the indexes, and thatdimensions/modelOptionsare sent on every request. It also checks the summed usage, with a different value for each field.Risk / rollback
The risk is low. With 2048 inputs or fewer, the adapter sends the same single request as before. Above 2048, the call now takes several requests in sequence. If one of them fails, the whole call rejects and the vectors already received are lost. To roll back, revert this PR.
This change was prepared with the help of an AI coding assistant (Claude); the submitter is responsible for it.
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