Qwen 3 Embedding 8B vs Seed1.6 Embedding 1215
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages) Embeddings assign examples to categories, group similar examples, estimate semantic similarity between pairs, classify relationships between pairs, rank relevant documents for queries, find translated sentence pairs, rerank documents according to instructions, assign multiple labels to each example, reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Multilingual v2 · mean over tasks in 1037 languages including 'Auhelawa, Abau, Achi, Achinese, Achuar-Shiwiar, Adzera, Afrikaans, Agarabi; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B70.6
Seed1.6 Embedding 121570.3
CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on CoIR · mean over tasks in English, c++, go, java, javascript, php, python, ruby, sql; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B79.9
Seed1.6 Embedding 121578.3
CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on CoIR · mean over task types in English, c++, go, java, javascript, php, python, ruby, sql; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B79.9
Seed1.6 Embedding 121578.3
CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on CoIR · Retrieval in English, c++, go, java, javascript, php, python, ruby, sql
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B79.9
Seed1.6 Embedding 121578.3
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English Embeddings rerank documents according to instructions on FollowIR · mean over tasks in English; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B10.1
Seed1.6 Embedding 1215-0
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English Embeddings rerank documents according to instructions on FollowIR · mean over task types in English; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B10.1
Seed1.6 Embedding 1215-0
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English Embeddings rerank documents according to instructions on FollowIR · Instruction Reranking in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B10.1
Seed1.6 Embedding 1215-0
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on MTEB Code v1 · mean over tasks in English, c, c++, go, java, javascript, php, python, ruby, rust, scala, shell, sql, swift, typescript; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B80.7
Seed1.6 Embedding 121580.7
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on MTEB Code v1 · mean over task types in English, c, c++, go, java, javascript, php, python, ruby, rust, scala, shell, sql, swift, typescript; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B80.7
Seed1.6 Embedding 121580.7
MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval in English, c, c++, go, java, javascript, php, python, ruby, rust, scala, shell, sql, swift, typescript
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B80.7
Seed1.6 Embedding 121580.7
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages) Embeddings find translated sentence pairs on MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining in 28 languages including Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B93
Seed1.6 Embedding 121591.8
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages) Embeddings group similar examples on MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering in 29 languages including Basque, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B50.4
Seed1.6 Embedding 121548.9
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English Embeddings rerank documents according to instructions on MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B10.1
Seed1.6 Embedding 1215-0
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages) Embeddings assign multiple labels to each example on MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification in 23 languages including Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B23.7
Seed1.6 Embedding 121539.5
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages) Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking in Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B62.6
Seed1.6 Embedding 121563.2
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French Embeddings classify relationships between pairs on MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification in French
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B79.2
Seed1.6 Embedding 121579.3
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages) Embeddings group similar examples on MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering in Assamese, Awadhi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Chhattisgarhi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali (individual language), Odia, Panjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B55.7
Seed1.6 Embedding 121543
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi Embeddings classify relationships between pairs on MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification in Hindi
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B86.6
Seed1.6 Embedding 121591.2
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages) Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking in Bengali, Hindi
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B86.8
Seed1.6 Embedding 121586.9
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages) Embeddings estimate semantic similarity between pairs on MTEB Indic v1 · STS in Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Panjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B61.6
Seed1.6 Embedding 121532.3
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages) Embeddings assign examples to categories, group similar examples, estimate semantic similarity between pairs, classify relationships between pairs, rank relevant documents for queries, find translated sentence pairs, rerank documents according to instructions, assign multiple labels to each example, reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Multilingual v2 · mean over task types in 1037 languages including 'Auhelawa, Abau, Achi, Achinese, Achuar-Shiwiar, Adzera, Afrikaans, Agarabi; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B61.7
Seed1.6 Embedding 121561.3
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages) Embeddings find translated sentence pairs on MTEB Multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining in 1026 languages including 'Auhelawa, Abau, Achi, Achinese, Achuar-Shiwiar, Adzera, Afrikaans, Agarabi
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B80.9
Seed1.6 Embedding 121578.7
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages) Embeddings assign examples to categories on MTEB Multilingual v2 · Classification in 119 languages including Achinese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Algerian Arabic, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B74
Seed1.6 Embedding 121576.7
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages) Embeddings group similar examples on MTEB Multilingual v2 · Clustering in 208 languages including Achinese, Afrikaans, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Asturian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B57.6
Seed1.6 Embedding 121556.8
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English Embeddings rerank documents according to instructions on MTEB Multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B10.1
Seed1.6 Embedding 1215-0
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages) Embeddings assign multiple labels to each example on MTEB Multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification in 25 languages including Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B28.7
Seed1.6 Embedding 121546.2
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages) Embeddings classify relationships between pairs on MTEB Multilingual v2 · Pair Classification in 24 languages including Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, English, Finnish, French
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B86.4
Seed1.6 Embedding 121585.5
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages) Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Multilingual v2 · Reranking in 22 languages including Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B65.6
Seed1.6 Embedding 121566.2
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on MTEB Multilingual v2 · Retrieval in 120 languages including Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Bambara, Basque, Bengali
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B70.9
Seed1.6 Embedding 121566
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages) Embeddings estimate semantic similarity between pairs on MTEB Multilingual v2 · STS in 35 languages including Afrikaans, Algerian Arabic, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Dutch, English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B81.1
Seed1.6 Embedding 121575.9
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking in Dutch
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B91.2
Seed1.6 Embedding 121591.7
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese Embeddings assign multiple labels to each example on MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification in Portuguese
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B22
Seed1.6 Embedding 121522.4
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian Embeddings classify relationships between pairs on MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification in Russian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B71.3
Seed1.6 Embedding 121566
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages) Embeddings find translated sentence pairs on MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining in Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B84.7
Seed1.6 Embedding 121580.5
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish Embeddings classify relationships between pairs on MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification in Spanish
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B84.4
Seed1.6 Embedding 121586.4
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai Embeddings group similar examples on MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering in Thai
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B58.2
Seed1.6 Embedding 121552.7
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai Embeddings classify relationships between pairs on MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification in Thai
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B88.6
Seed1.6 Embedding 121591.5
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on BEIR · mean over tasks in English; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B62.8
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BEIR · Mean over task types · English Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on BEIR · mean over task types in English; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B62.8
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BEIR · Retrieval · English Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on BEIR · Retrieval in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B62.8
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CoREB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages) Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance, rank relevant documents for queries on CoReB v1 · mean over tasks in English, c++, go, java, python, ruby; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B59
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CoREB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages) Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance, rank relevant documents for queries on CoReB v1 · mean over task types in English, c++, go, java, python, ruby; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B59
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CoREB v1 · Reranking · multilingual (6 languages) Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance on CoReB v1 · Reranking in English, c++, go, java, python, ruby
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B54.1
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CoREB v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (6 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on CoReB v1 · Retrieval in English, c++, go, java, python, ruby
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B63.8
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MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries, estimate semantic similarity between pairs, reorder candidate documents by relevance, group similar examples, classify relationships between pairs, assign examples to categories on MTEB Chinese v1 · mean over tasks in Mandarin Chinese; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B73.9
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MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries, estimate semantic similarity between pairs, reorder candidate documents by relevance, group similar examples, classify relationships between pairs, assign examples to categories on MTEB Chinese v1 · mean over task types in Mandarin Chinese; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B75
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MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese Embeddings assign examples to categories on MTEB Chinese v1 · Classification in Mandarin Chinese
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B77.1
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MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese Embeddings group similar examples on MTEB Chinese v1 · Clustering in Mandarin Chinese
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B80.1
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MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese Embeddings classify relationships between pairs on MTEB Chinese v1 · Pair Classification in Mandarin Chinese
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B84.2
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MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Chinese v1 · Reranking in Mandarin Chinese
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B67
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MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on MTEB Chinese v1 · Retrieval in Mandarin Chinese
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B78.2
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MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese Embeddings estimate semantic similarity between pairs on MTEB Chinese v1 · STS in Mandarin Chinese
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B63.5
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MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages) Embeddings estimate semantic similarity between pairs, rank relevant documents for queries, classify relationships between pairs, reorder candidate documents by relevance, assign examples to categories, group similar examples on MTEB Korean v2 · mean over tasks in English, Korean; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B77.7
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MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages) Embeddings estimate semantic similarity between pairs, rank relevant documents for queries, classify relationships between pairs, reorder candidate documents by relevance, assign examples to categories, group similar examples on MTEB Korean v2 · mean over task types in English, Korean; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B75.4
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MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean Embeddings assign examples to categories on MTEB Korean v2 · Classification in Korean
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B69.1
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MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean Embeddings group similar examples on MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering in Korean
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B70.9
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MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean Embeddings classify relationships between pairs on MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification in Korean
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B77.3
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MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking in Korean
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B67.4
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MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval in English, Korean
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B78.3
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MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean Embeddings estimate semantic similarity between pairs on MTEB Korean v2 · STS in Korean
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B89.8
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MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English Embeddings group similar examples on MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B45.1
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MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking in Mandarin Chinese
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B86.4
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MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch Embeddings assign examples to categories, group similar examples, rank relevant documents for queries, estimate semantic similarity between pairs, assign multiple labels to each example, classify relationships between pairs, reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Dutch v1 · mean over tasks in Dutch; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B65.6
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MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch Embeddings assign examples to categories, group similar examples, rank relevant documents for queries, estimate semantic similarity between pairs, assign multiple labels to each example, classify relationships between pairs, reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Dutch v1 · mean over task types in Dutch; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B70.1
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MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch Embeddings assign examples to categories on MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification in Dutch
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B73
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MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch Embeddings group similar examples on MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering in Dutch
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B49
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MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch Embeddings assign multiple labels to each example on MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification in Dutch
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B41.5
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MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch Embeddings classify relationships between pairs on MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification in Dutch
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B82.4
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MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval in Dutch
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B66.8
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MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch Embeddings estimate semantic similarity between pairs on MTEB Dutch v1 · STS in Dutch
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B87
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MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian Embeddings assign examples to categories, estimate semantic similarity between pairs, reorder candidate documents by relevance, group similar examples, classify relationships between pairs, rank relevant documents for queries, assign multiple labels to each example on MTEB Russian v1.1 · mean over tasks in Russian; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B71.4
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MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian Embeddings assign examples to categories, estimate semantic similarity between pairs, reorder candidate documents by relevance, group similar examples, classify relationships between pairs, rank relevant documents for queries, assign multiple labels to each example on MTEB Russian v1.1 · mean over task types in Russian; task types receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B69.2
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MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian Embeddings assign examples to categories on MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification in Russian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B74.3
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MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian Embeddings group similar examples on MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering in Russian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B66.7
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MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian Embeddings assign multiple labels to each example on MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification in Russian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B44.6
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MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian Embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance on MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking in Russian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B70.2
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MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval in Russian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B78.2
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MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian Embeddings estimate semantic similarity between pairs on MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS in Russian
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B79.3
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MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages) Embeddings assign examples to categories on MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification in Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B74.8
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RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on RTEB German Beta · mean over tasks in German; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B66.8
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RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on RTEB Finnish Beta · mean over tasks in English; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B72.7
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RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on RTEB French Beta · mean over tasks in English, French; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B59.5
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RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on RTEB Health Beta · mean over tasks in English, French, German, Spanish; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B67
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RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages) Embeddings rank relevant documents for queries on RTEB Law Beta · mean over tasks in English, French, German, Japanese; tasks receive equal weight
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B67.2
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MTEB English v2 · Pair Classification · English MTEB English v2 · Pair Classification · English: embeddings classify relationships between pairs in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B87.5
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MTEB English v2 · Classification · English MTEB English v2 · Classification · English: embeddings assign examples to categories in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B90.4
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MTEB English v2 · Reranking · English MTEB English v2 · Reranking · English: embeddings reorder candidate documents by relevance in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B51.6
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MTEB English v2 · STS · English MTEB English v2 · STS · English: embeddings estimate semantic similarity between pairs in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B88.6
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MTEB English v2 · Retrieval · English MTEB English v2 · Retrieval · English: embeddings rank relevant documents for queries in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B69.4
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MTEB English v2 · Clustering · English MTEB English v2 · Clustering · English: embeddings group similar examples in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B58.6
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MTEB English v2 · Summarization · English MTEB English v2 · Summarization · English: embeddings match summaries to their source meaning in English
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B34.8
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| Benchmark | Qwen 3 Embedding 8B | Seed1.6 Embedding 1215 |
|---|---|---|
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages) | 70.6 | 70.3 |
| CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages) | 79.9 | 78.3 |
| CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages) | 79.9 | 78.3 |
| CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages) | 79.9 | 78.3 |
| FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English | 10.1 | -0 |
| FollowIR · Mean over task types · English | 10.1 | -0 |
| FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English | 10.1 | -0 |
| MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages) | 80.7 | 80.7 |
| MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages) | 80.7 | 80.7 |
| MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages) | 80.7 | 80.7 |
| MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages) | 93 | 91.8 |
| MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages) | 50.4 | 48.9 |
| MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English | 10.1 | -0 |
| MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages) | 23.7 | 39.5 |
| MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages) | 62.6 | 63.2 |
| MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French | 79.2 | 79.3 |
| MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages) | 55.7 | 43 |
| MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi | 86.6 | 91.2 |
| MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages) | 86.8 | 86.9 |
| MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages) | 61.6 | 32.3 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages) | 61.7 | 61.3 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages) | 80.9 | 78.7 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages) | 74 | 76.7 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages) | 57.6 | 56.8 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English | 10.1 | -0 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages) | 28.7 | 46.2 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages) | 86.4 | 85.5 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages) | 65.6 | 66.2 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages) | 70.9 | 66 |
| MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages) | 81.1 | 75.9 |
| MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch | 91.2 | 91.7 |
| MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese | 22 | 22.4 |
| MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian | 71.3 | 66 |
| MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages) | 84.7 | 80.5 |
| MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish | 84.4 | 86.4 |
| MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai | 58.2 | 52.7 |
| MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai | 88.6 | 91.5 |
| BEIR · Mean over tasks · English | 62.8 | — |
| BEIR · Mean over task types · English | 62.8 | — |
| BEIR · Retrieval · English | 62.8 | — |
| CoREB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages) | 59 | — |
| CoREB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages) | 59 | — |
| CoREB v1 · Reranking · multilingual (6 languages) | 54.1 | — |
| CoREB v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (6 languages) | 63.8 | — |
| MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese | 73.9 | — |
| MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese | 75 | — |
| MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese | 77.1 | — |
| MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese | 80.1 | — |
| MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese | 84.2 | — |
| MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese | 67 | — |
| MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese | 78.2 | — |
| MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese | 63.5 | — |
| MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages) | 77.7 | — |
| MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages) | 75.4 | — |
| MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean | 69.1 | — |
| MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean | 70.9 | — |
| MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean | 77.3 | — |
| MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean | 67.4 | — |
| MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages) | 78.3 | — |
| MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean | 89.8 | — |
| MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English | 45.1 | — |
| MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese | 86.4 | — |
| MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch | 65.6 | — |
| MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch | 70.1 | — |
| MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch | 73 | — |
| MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch | 49 | — |
| MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch | 41.5 | — |
| MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch | 82.4 | — |
| MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch | 66.8 | — |
| MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch | 87 | — |
| MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian | 71.4 | — |
| MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian | 69.2 | — |
| MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian | 74.3 | — |
| MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian | 66.7 | — |
| MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian | 44.6 | — |
| MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian | 70.2 | — |
| MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian | 78.2 | — |
| MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian | 79.3 | — |
| MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages) | 74.8 | — |
| RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German | 66.8 | — |
| RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English | 72.7 | — |
| RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages) | 59.5 | — |
| RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages) | 67 | — |
| RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages) | 67.2 | — |
| MTEB English v2 · Pair Classification · English | 87.5 | — |
| MTEB English v2 · Classification · English | 90.4 | — |
| MTEB English v2 · Reranking · English | 51.6 | — |
| MTEB English v2 · STS · English | 88.6 | — |
| MTEB English v2 · Retrieval · English | 69.4 | — |
| MTEB English v2 · Clustering · English | 58.6 | — |
| MTEB English v2 · Summarization · English | 34.8 | — |
Specs
| Spec | Qwen 3 Embedding 8B | Seed1.6 Embedding 1215 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | !$0.01 | — |
| Context | 33K | 33K |
| Weights | Open | Closed |
| Released | Jun 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| Published speed | 3.3 × vLLM H100 (Baseten) | — |
| Dimensions | 4,096 | — |
| Max input | 33K tokens | 33K tokens |
| Memory (4-bit) | 4.5 GB | — |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | — |
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