diff --git a/src/ontogpt/__init__.py b/src/ontogpt/__init__.py
index 49e2d1cda..8b663e8aa 100644
--- a/src/ontogpt/__init__.py
+++ b/src/ontogpt/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """ontogpt package."""
+
 from importlib import metadata
 from pathlib import Path
 
@@ -16,6 +17,12 @@
         DEFAULT_MODEL = model["alternative_names"][0]
         break
 
+OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODELS = [
+    "text-embedding-ada-002",
+    "text-embedding-3-small",
+    "text-embedding-3-large",
+]
+
 try:
     __version__ = metadata.version(__name__)
 except metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
diff --git a/src/ontogpt/cli.py b/src/ontogpt/cli.py
index 64bb16012..ac10d1b1e 100644
--- a/src/ontogpt/cli.py
+++ b/src/ontogpt/cli.py
@@ -24,7 +24,13 @@
 from sssom.util import to_mapping_set_dataframe
 
 import ontogpt.ontex.extractor as extractor
-from ontogpt import DEFAULT_MODEL, DEFAULT_MODEL_DETAILS, MODELS, __version__
+from ontogpt import (
+    DEFAULT_MODEL,
+    DEFAULT_MODEL_DETAILS,
+    MODELS,
+    OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODELS,
+    __version__,
+)
 from ontogpt.clients import OpenAIClient
 from ontogpt.clients.pubmed_client import PubmedClient
 from ontogpt.clients.soup_client import SoupClient
@@ -936,19 +942,18 @@ def embed(text, context, output, model, output_format, azure_select, **kwargs):
     Not currently supported for open models.
     """
     if model:
-        selectmodel = get_model_by_name(model)
-        model_source = selectmodel["provider"]
-
-        if model_source != "OpenAI":
-            raise NotImplementedError("Model not yet supported for embeddings.")
+        if model not in OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODELS:
+            raise NotImplementedError("Model not recognized or not yet supported for embeddings.")
     else:
         model = "text-embedding-ada-002"
 
+    logging.info(f"Embedding with model {model}")
+
     if not text:
         raise ValueError("Text must be passed")
 
     client = OpenAIClient(model=model, use_azure=azure_select)
-    resp = client.embeddings(text)
+    resp = client.embeddings(text=text, model=model)
     print(resp)
 
 
@@ -969,14 +974,13 @@ def text_similarity(text, context, output, model, output_format, azure_select, *
     Not currently supported for open models.
     """
     if model:
-        selectmodel = get_model_by_name(model)
-        model_source = selectmodel["provider"]
-
-        if model_source != "OpenAI":
-            raise NotImplementedError("Model not yet supported for embeddings.")
+        if model not in OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODELS:
+            raise NotImplementedError("Model not recognized or not yet supported for embeddings.")
     else:
         model = "text-embedding-ada-002"
 
+    logging.info(f"Embedding with model {model}")
+
     if not text:
         raise ValueError("Text must be passed")
     text = list(text)
@@ -1010,14 +1014,13 @@ def text_distance(text, context, output, model, output_format, azure_select, **k
     Not currently supported for open models.
     """
     if model:
-        selectmodel = get_model_by_name(model)
-        model_source = selectmodel["provider"]
-
-        if model_source != "OpenAI":
-            raise NotImplementedError("Model not yet supported for embeddings.")
+        if model not in OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODELS:
+            raise NotImplementedError("Model not recognized or not yet supported for embeddings.")
     else:
         model = "text-embedding-ada-002"
 
+    logging.info(f"Embedding with model {model}")
+
     if not text:
         raise ValueError("Text must be passed")
     text = list(text)
@@ -1082,11 +1085,12 @@ def entity_similarity(terms, ontology, output, model, output_format, **kwargs):
     Not currently supported for open models.
     """
     if model:
-        selectmodel = get_model_by_name(model)
-        model_source = selectmodel["provider"]
+        if model not in OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODELS:
+            raise NotImplementedError("Model not recognized or not yet supported for embeddings.")
+    else:
+        model = "text-embedding-ada-002"
 
-        if model_source != "OpenAI":
-            raise NotImplementedError("Model not yet supported for embeddings.")
+    logging.info(f"Embedding with model {model}")
 
     if not terms:
         raise ValueError("terms must be passed")
@@ -1202,13 +1206,16 @@ def diagnose(
 @click.argument("output_directory")
 @output_option_wb
 def run_multilingual_analysis(
-    input_data_dir, output_directory, output, model="gpt-4-turbo",
+    input_data_dir,
+    output_directory,
+    output,
+    model="gpt-4-turbo",
 ):
     """Call the multilingual analysis function."""
-    multilingual_analysis(input_data_dir=input_data_dir,
-                          output_directory=output_directory,
-                          output=output,
-                          model=model)
+    multilingual_analysis(
+        input_data_dir=input_data_dir, output_directory=output_directory, output=output, model=model
+    )
+
 
 def get_kanjee_prompt() -> str:
     """Prompt from Kanjee et al. 2023."""
diff --git a/src/ontogpt/clients/openai_client.py b/src/ontogpt/clients/openai_client.py
index aed20e61c..fbf27cf46 100644
--- a/src/ontogpt/clients/openai_client.py
+++ b/src/ontogpt/clients/openai_client.py
@@ -173,11 +173,9 @@ def _must_use_chat_api(self) -> bool:
             return False
         return True
 
-    def embeddings(self, text: str, model: str = ""):
+    def embeddings(self, text: str, model: str):
         text = str(text)
 
-        if model == "":
-            model = "text-embedding-ada-002"
         cur = self.db_connection()
         try:
             logger.info("creating embeddings cache")