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All MiniLM L6 v2

Aug 2021
sAll MiniLM L6 v2
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$0.005per 1M tokens
42.9MTEB English v2
Aug 2021released
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1Gemini Embedding 00177.22F2LLM v2 14B75.23Voyage Finance 274.94Voyage Multilingual 274.65Voyage 3.574.1
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52Dfm Sentence Encoder Medium28.653All MiniLM L6 v227.554Model2vecdk27.1

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Embeddings & Retrieval#138 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
sBetterAll Mpnet Base v2unstatedOpen+20%same$0.005Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GBcOpenF2LLM v2 8Bunstated×2.7——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 4.5 GBsBetterAll MiniLM L12 v2unstatedOpen+16%same$0.005iBetterMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen×2.3+100%$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.3 GBBetterBge M3unstatedOpen×2.3+100%$0.01Languages: not verified+1

Run it yourself

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Fits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · full quality✓ 16 GB · full quality✓ 24 GB GPU · full quality✓ 48 GB GPU · full quality✓ 80 GB GPU · full quality
LicenceApache-2.0free for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English41.9#141
BEIR · Mean over task types · English41.9#141
BEIR · Retrieval · English41.9#141
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese3.6#86
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese24.2#78
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese43#43
ChemTEB · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)69.6#25
ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)49.5#27
ChemTEB · Classification · English81.5#25
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English63.7#41
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)53.7#40
ChemTEB · Clustering · English48.4#16
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0.1#32
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian21.8#133
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese16.2#112
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese67#77
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English29.8#128
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English29.8#128
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English29.8#128
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German36.7#73
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German35#74
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German18.2#116
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German30.5#79
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German49#101
MTEB German v1 · STS · German47.5#94
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German48.8#143
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German16.3#118
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages)43.4#50
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (29 languages)38#50
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)37.3#92
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)62.7#62
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)27.2#149
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)47.8#107
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)33.6#127
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.8#157
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)80.2#110
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)47.7#128
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)8.8#133
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)45.2#72
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)48#70
MTEB French v1 · STS · French69.4#62
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)31.2#92
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French65#88
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French35.5#88
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French50.8#98
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French28.3#133
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French55.6#133
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)31.8#101
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)20.4#115
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)44.1#82
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)6.2#136
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)2.5#132
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)39.2#159
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi53.7#129
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)-6.3#196
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)3.1#154
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean36#68
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean8.2#116
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean20.9#118
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch34.2#107
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch43.2#108
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch44.3#106
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch17.2#108
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch26.2#104
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch56.9#104
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch27#107
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch57.2#130
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch73.1#166
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish61.6#121
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish39.9#112
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish52.9#87
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese47.5#26
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese21.3#48
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)35.4#119
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)35.4#119
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)35.4#119
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English36.5#83
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese17.7#153
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2.8#157
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2.8#157
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2.8#157
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish55.7#154
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)57.8#63
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish35.3#105
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish21.3#116
MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)11.4#28
MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)16.3#28
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai3.6#151
MTEB Thai v1 · Classification · Thai15.5#34
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai51.3#154
MTEB Thai v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)6.4#29
MTEB Thai v1 · Reranking · Thai4.5#31
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)38.9#43
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)40#42
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)26.6#132
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)47.8#118
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)27.5#53
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)58.1#151
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over tasks · Vietnamese27.5#26
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over task types · Vietnamese41.2#26
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Classification · Vietnamese43.6#30
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · STS · Vietnamese58.3#31
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Retrieval · Vietnamese9.6#29
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Clustering · Vietnamese20.4#31
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Reranking · Vietnamese51.1#31
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Pair Classification · Vietnamese64.5#27
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian23.7#87
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian24#89
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian28.7#123
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian38.1#111
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian15.9#129
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian13.3#144
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian45#187
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian1.5#90
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian25.3#142
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English43.8#76
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)10.2#160
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German11.8#169
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)34.7#74
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)27.8#161
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)41.4#80
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)35.1#78
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)46.2#128
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)37.5#125
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)56.1#92
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)71.2#146
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)32.5#139
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)20.1#152
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.8#157
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)15.1#135
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)40.3#136

FAQ

How much does All MiniLM L6 v2 cost?›

$0.005 per 1M tokens.

Is All MiniLM L6 v2 free to use?›

There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.005 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is All MiniLM L6 v2, and what is it best at?›

#138 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is All MiniLM L6 v2 better than Dfm Sentence Encoder Medium?›

On MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages), All MiniLM L6 v2 scores 27.5 vs 28.6 — lower.

How can I use All MiniLM L6 v2?›

Through the sentence-transformers API.

When was All MiniLM L6 v2 released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2021-08-30. It is the current version in its line.

Is All MiniLM L6 v2 open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).

Can I run All MiniLM L6 v2 locally?›

The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.

What is All MiniLM L6 v2?›

All MiniLM L6 v2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from sentence-transformers, released Aug 2021.

What are the best alternatives to All MiniLM L6 v2?›

All Mpnet Base v2 (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).