BiUltraVBERT measured on 5 of 203 Multimodal benchmarks5
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62.5MIEB lite
Oct 2026released
33K tokensMax input
en, es, fr +3Languages
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42ColSmol 256M66.943BiUltraVBERT62.344E5 V58.1Strong at
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterJina Embeddings v4unstatedOpen+30%—$0.05Languages: not verified+1DOpenArgus Colqwen3.5 9B v0unstated+38%——Languages: loses es, fr, de +2+1VBetterVoyage Multimodal 3+22%—$0.12Languages: not verifiedvBetterVultronRetrieverPrime Qwen3.5 8BOpen+37%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 5 GBOBetterOps Colqwen3 4BOpen+36%——Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
Jina Embeddings v4unstatedOpen+30%—$0.05Languages: not verified+1VVoyage Multimodal 3+22%—$0.12Languages: not verifiedDArgus Colqwen3.5 9B v0unstatedOpen+38%——Languages: loses es, fr, de +2+1vVultronRetrieverPrime Qwen3.5 8BOpen+37%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 5 GBOOps Colqwen3 4BOpen+36%——Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
DArgus Colqwen3.5 9B v0unstatedOpen+38%——Languages: loses es, fr, de +2+1vVultronRetrieverPrime Qwen3.5 8BOpen+37%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 5 GBOOps Colqwen3 4BOpen+36%——Languages: not verified+1
Nemotron Colembed VL 8B v2Open+36%——Languages: not verified+1vVultronRetrieverCore Qwen3.5 4.5BOpen+36%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 2.7 GBModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
aColqwen3.5 4.5B v3Open+35%——Languages: loses pt, it+1aColUltraVBERTOpen+24%——All athrael-soju models →Run it yourself
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LicenceMITfree for commercial use
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How much does BiUltraVBERT cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
Is BiUltraVBERT free to use?›
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
How good is BiUltraVBERT, and what is it best at?›
#53 of 89 in Multimodal.
Is BiUltraVBERT better than ColSmol 256M?›
On ViDoRe v1&v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages), BiUltraVBERT scores 62.3 vs 66.9 — lower.
When was BiUltraVBERT released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2026-10-18. It is the current version in its line.
Is BiUltraVBERT open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).
Can I run BiUltraVBERT locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is BiUltraVBERT?›
BiUltraVBERT is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from athrael-soju, released Oct 2026.
What are the best alternatives to BiUltraVBERT?›
Jina Embeddings v4 (better), Argus Colqwen3.5 9B v0 (open weights).