# Generate vectors

`POST /embed`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/embed \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "model": "multilingual-e5-large",
  "parameters": {
    "input_type": "passage",
    "truncate": "END"
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "text": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
    }
  ]
}'
```

```json title="200"
{
  "model": "multilingual-e5-large",
  "vector_type": "dense",
  "data": [
    {
      "values": [
        0.1,
        0.2,
        0.3
      ],
      "vector_type": null
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "total_tokens": 205
  }
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

- `Authorization` (header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`.

## Headers

- `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` (header, string, required) — Required date-based version header

## Body

- `model` (body, string, required) — The [model](/guides/index-data-create-an-index#embedding-models) to use for embedding generation.
- `parameters` (body, object) — Additional model-specific parameters. Refer to the [model guide](/guides/index-data-create-an-index#embedding-models) for available model parameters.
- `inputs` (body, object\[], required) — List of inputs to generate embeddings for.

## Response

- `200` — OK
- `400` — Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters.
- `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.
- `500` — Internal server error.

## Related pages

- [Rerank results](./inference-2026-07-rerank-results.md)
- [List available models](./inference-2026-07-list-available-models.md)
- [Describe a model](./inference-2026-07-describe-a-model.md)

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