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Bilingual Embedding Small

Jul 2024
LBilingual Embedding Small
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41.7MTEB English v2
Jul 2024released
384Dimensions
1K tokensMax input
en, frLanguages

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1Seed1.6 Embedding 121591.52Qwen 3 Embedding 8B88.63Arabic English Sts Matryoshka88.54Harrier OSS v1 27B88.55Qwen 3 Embedding 4B86.7
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59Bekko Embedding v1 A25m69.360Bilingual Embedding Small69.161KaLM Embedding Multilingual Mini v168.9

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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
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian66.4#41
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese50.7#29
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese79.9#44
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English37.1#93
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English37.1#93
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English37.1#93
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German52.1#23
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German51#26
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German31.8#36
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German46.3#30
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German65.4#39
MTEB German v1 · STS · German70.8#21
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German51.4#62
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German40.3#51
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)48.7#42
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)84.9#55
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)57#38
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)39.5#66
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-3.4#178
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)87.1#40
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)55.1#73
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)15.8#58
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)48.7#37
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French75.1#43
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French46.6#19
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French66.4#34
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French32.3#5
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French58.2#92
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)65#18
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)64.5#17
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)63.5#21
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)77.6#29
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)71.1#21
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)83.7#54
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi71.2#57
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)47.8#35
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)36.7#42
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean49.2#46
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean56.1#39
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch51.9#49
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch58.5#47
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch59.3#45
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch31.8#47
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch52.4#56
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch76.6#46
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch34.7#46
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch70#61
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch85.1#86
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish79.4#52
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish55.8#46
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish66.2#33
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese17.7#149
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)49.4#51
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)49.4#51
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)49.4#51
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)46.7#45
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)49.3#44
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)47.5#49
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English33.2#161
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese67.2#81
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-3.4#178
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-3.4#178
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-3.4#178
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish63.3#71
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish44.6#41
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish50.7#51
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai45.2#49
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai69.1#60
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)41#44
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)57.9#52
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)66.6#78
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian56.4#37
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian55.3#36
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian56.5#62
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian71.3#41
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian58.4#52
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian53.3#49
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian55.4#88
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian59.4#35
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian32.7#59
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)26.8#107
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German44.1#79
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)40.1#81
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)77.1#65
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)49.5#80
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)69.5#41
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-3.4#178
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)19.2#67
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)59.3#72

FAQ

How much does Bilingual Embedding Small cost?›

There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.

Is Bilingual Embedding Small free to use?›

There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is Bilingual Embedding Small, and what is it best at?›

#140 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Bilingual Embedding Small better than Bekko Embedding v1 A25m?›

On MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai, Bilingual Embedding Small scores 69.1 vs 69.3 — about the same.

When was Bilingual Embedding Small released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-07-17. It is the current version in its line.

Is Bilingual Embedding Small open source?›

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

Can I run Bilingual Embedding Small locally?›

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

What is Bilingual Embedding Small?›

Bilingual Embedding Small is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Lajavaness, released Jul 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Bilingual Embedding Small?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (open weights).