Harrier OSS v1 27B vs Llama Embed Nemotron 8B

Harrier OSS v1 27B

Wins 21 of 40 benchmarks

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B

Wins 11 of 40 benchmarks

Only shared

MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B74.3

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B69.5

FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English?

Harrier OSS v1 27B5.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B10.8

FollowIR · Mean over task types · English?

Harrier OSS v1 27B5.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B10.8

FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English?

Harrier OSS v1 27B5.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B10.8

MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B93.6

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B92.1

MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B52.8

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B49.9

MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English?

Harrier OSS v1 27B5.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B10.8

MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B26

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B22

MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B64.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B62.5

MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French?

Harrier OSS v1 27B72.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B66.8

MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B55

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B57

MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi?

Harrier OSS v1 27B87.6

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B80.1

MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B86.8

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B88.5

MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B63.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B58.2

MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B76.6

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B56.3

MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B64.2

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B61.1

MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B86

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B81.7

MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B79.9

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B73.2

MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B58.9

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B54.4

MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English?

Harrier OSS v1 27B5.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B10.8

MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B36.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B29.9

MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B85.4

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B84

MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B67.3

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B67.8

MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B78.3

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B68.7

MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B80

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B79.4

MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch?

Harrier OSS v1 27B90.9

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B91.7

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese?

Harrier OSS v1 27B38.1

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B29

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian?

Harrier OSS v1 27B61.5

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B67.2

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)?

Harrier OSS v1 27B85

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B79.6

MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish?

Harrier OSS v1 27B81.2

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B74.8

MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai?

Harrier OSS v1 27B55.3

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B63.4

MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai?

Harrier OSS v1 27B88.5

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B81.4

MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch?

Harrier OSS v1 27B—

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B66.2

MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch?

Harrier OSS v1 27B—

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B70.7

MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch?

Harrier OSS v1 27B—

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B73.4

MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch?

Harrier OSS v1 27B—

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B50.8

MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch?

Harrier OSS v1 27B—

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B41.5

MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch?

Harrier OSS v1 27B—

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B83.9

MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch?

Harrier OSS v1 27B—

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B67

MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch?

Harrier OSS v1 27B—

Llama Embed Nemotron 8B86.4

Benchmark	Harrier OSS v1 27B	Llama Embed Nemotron 8B
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)	74.3	69.5
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English	5.4	10.8
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English	5.4	10.8
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English	5.4	10.8
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)	93.6	92.1
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)	52.8	49.9
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English	5.4	10.8
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)	26	22
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)	64.4	62.5
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French	72.4	66.8
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)	55	57
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi	87.6	80.1
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)	86.8	88.5
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)	63.4	58.2
MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)	76.6	56.3
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)	64.2	61.1
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)	86	81.7
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)	79.9	73.2
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)	58.9	54.4
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English	5.4	10.8
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)	36.4	29.9
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)	85.4	84
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)	67.3	67.8
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)	78.3	68.7
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)	80	79.4
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch	90.9	91.7
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese	38.1	29
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian	61.5	67.2
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)	85	79.6
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish	81.2	74.8
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai	55.3	63.4
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai	88.5	81.4
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch	—	66.2
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch	—	70.7
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch	—	73.4
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch	—	50.8
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch	—	41.5
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch	—	83.9
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch	—	67
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch	—	86.4

Specs

Spec	Harrier OSS v1 27B	Llama Embed Nemotron 8B
Context	33K	33K
Weights	Open	Open
Released	Mar 2026	Oct 2025
Dimensions	5,376	4,096
Max input	33K tokens	131K tokens
Languages	en, Esperanto, es +90	—
Memory (4-bit)	16 GB	4.5 GB
Licence	MIT	https://huggingface.co/nvidia/llama-embed-nemotron-8b/blob/main/LICENSE
Commercial use	Allowed	Restricted

What breaks when you switch

Harrier OSS v1 27B → Llama Embed Nemotron 8B

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Llama Embed Nemotron 8B → Harrier OSS v1 27B

Re-embed your whole corpus›

Vectors from different models can't be mixed; dimensions change from 4,096 to 5,376.

Max input: 131K tokens → 33K tokens

Memory (4-bit): 4.5 GB → 16 GB