Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.0 vs Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.0

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Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.057
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.0—

Specs

SpecSnowflake Arctic Embed L v2.0Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.0
Context8K8K
WeightsOpenOpen
ReleasedDec 2024Dec 2024
Dimensions1,024768
Max input8K tokens8K tokens
Languagesen, es, Estonian +68en, es, Estonian +68
Memory (4-bit)0.3 GB0.2 GB
LicenceApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Commercial useAllowedAllowed

What breaks when you switch

Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.0 → Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.0
Re-embed your whole corpus›

Vectors from different models can't be mixed; dimensions change from 1,024 to 768.

Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.0 → Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.0
Re-embed your whole corpus›

Vectors from different models can't be mixed; dimensions change from 768 to 1,024.

Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 0.3 GB