4 RAG embedding models compared in 2026: Nemotron 3 Embed vs OpenAI, Cohere and open-weight
A senior-engineer comparison of RAG embedding models in 2026: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed, OpenAI text-embedding-3, Cohere Embed v4 and open-weight Qwen3, with RTEB benchmarks, pricing and self-host break-even math.