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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1Seed1.6 Embedding 121586.42Qwen 3 Embedding 8B84.43Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct83.84Gte Qwen1.5 7B Instruct83.55Octen Embedding 8B82
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128MedEmbed Small v0.158.1129Cohere Embed English Light v3.058130Nomic Embed Text v1.557.9

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Embeddings & Retrieval#80 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+25%—$0.002Languages: not verifiedOpenQwen 3 Embedding 8Bunstated+46%—$0.01Languages: not verifiedBetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+30%—$0.01Languages: not verifiedBetterBge M3unstatedOpen+20%—$0.01Languages: not verifiediBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+19%—$0.01

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian30.8#105
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese19.3#96
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese62.5#96
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English38.6#85
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English38.6#85
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English38.6#85
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German24.6#87
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German51.2#84
MTEB German v1 · STS · German51.8#73
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German48.4#149
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German28.6#72
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)44.8#51
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)38.8#120
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)51.1#71
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)36.5#93
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.4#100
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)83.6#78
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)51.2#99
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)12.3#104
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#52
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)39.2#62
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French68.7#68
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French42.3#46
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French55.7#66
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.7#50
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French55.9#128
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)35#69
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)25.4#68
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)45.5#72
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)18.5#81
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)4#104
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)48.2#132
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi52.9#141
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)4.2#133
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)4.2#114
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean8.8#115
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean22.3#94
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch80.8#107
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish68.4#74
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish42.8#79
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish56.2#74
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.3#104
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)40.4#80
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)40.4#80
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)40.4#80
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)41.4#53
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)34.6#57
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)44.3#61
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English38.4#58
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese21.1#131
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 · Pair Classification · Spanish58#129
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish41.7#67
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish45.1#61
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai4.4#123
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai52#124
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)30.9#114
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)48.7#95
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)63#107
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian31.9#104
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian41.1#103
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian34.8#81
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian16.2#118
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian45#189
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian26.7#103
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)23#118
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German20.3#123
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)33.2#116
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)48.9#94
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)40.4#90
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)72#115
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)41.8#85
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)26.1#116
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.4#100
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)16.4#105
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)48#97

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 MedEmbed Small v0.1?›

On MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish, Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 scores 58 vs 58.1 — 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 8B.

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 8B (open weights).