Cohere Embed English Light v3.0

Nov 2023
Cohere Embed English Light v3.0
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53.2MTEB English v2
Nov 2023released
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1FollowIR 7B12.22Qwen 3 Embedding 4B11.63Llama Embed Nemotron 8B10.84Qwen 3 Embedding 8B10.15Octen Embedding 8B8.9
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99Jina Embeddings v3-1.3100Cohere Embed English Light v3.0-1.4101E5 Small-1.5

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Embeddings & Retrieval#80 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+7—$0.002Languages: not verifiedOpenQwen 3 Embedding 4Bunstated+13—$0.02Languages: not verifiedBetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+11.5—$0.01Languages: not verifiedBetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+6.5—$0.01Languages: not verifiedBetterText Multilingual Embedding 002unstated+5.5—$0.025

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian30.8#105
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese19.3#102
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese62.5#102
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English38.6#85
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English38.6#85
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English38.6#85
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German51.2#87
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German48.4#156
MTEB German v1 · STS · German51.8#78
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German24.6#90
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German28.6#72
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)51.1#74
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.4#100
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)12.3#104
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)83.6#92
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)36.5#94
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)44.8#63
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)51.2#99
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)38.8#121
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)50.6#42
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)52.1#42
MTEB French v1 · STS · French71.9#56
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)39.2#67
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French55.7#69
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French42.3#46
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French68.7#76
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French55.9#128
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.7#52
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)35#73
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)25.4#72
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)45.5#79
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)4#109
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)4.2#134
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)48.2#133
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)18.5#87
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi52.9#142
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)4.2#115
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean22.3#105
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean8.8#120
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch80.8#107
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish42.8#87
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish56.2#79
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish68.4#82
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.3#105
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)40.4#84
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)40.4#84
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)40.4#84
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)41.4#56
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)34.6#60
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)44.3#64
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English38.4#58
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese21.1#136
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-1.4#100
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-1.4#100
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-1.4#100
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish41.7#67
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish58#129
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish45.1#61
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai52#125
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai4.4#124
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)48.7#100
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)30.9#121
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)63#107
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian31.9#107
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian16.2#123
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian34.8#81
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian26.7#108
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian41.1#105
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian45#190
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)23#121
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German20.3#131
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)33.2#123
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)40.4#90
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)48.9#95
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)41.8#87
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)16.4#105
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)26.1#117
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.4#100
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)48#98
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)72#116

FAQ

How much does Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 cost?›

There is no per-unit API price: price not verified.

How good is Cohere Embed English Light v3.0, and what is it best at?›

#80 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 better than Jina Embeddings v3?›

On FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English, Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 scores -1.4 vs -1.3 — about the same.

When was Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2023-11-02. It is the current version in its line.

Is Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 open source?›

No, Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is Qwen 3 Embedding 4B.

What is Cohere Embed English Light v3.0?›

Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 is a closed embeddings & retrieval model from Cohere, released Nov 2023.

What are the best alternatives to Cohere Embed English Light v3.0?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 4B (open weights).