Cohere Embed English v3.0

Nov 2023
Cohere Embed English v3.0
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$0.10per 1M tokens
55.7MTEB English v2
Nov 2023released
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1F2LLM 4B68.52F2LLM 1.7B64.13F2LLM v2 14B63.54F2LLM v2 8B62.85F2LLM v2 4B62
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60NV Embed v149.561Cohere Embed English v3.049.362Text Embedding 3 Large48.9

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Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+19%-90%$0.01Languages: not verifiedBetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+15%-98%$0.002Languages: not verifiedcOpenF2LLM 4Bunstated+39%——CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+17%-80%$0.02Languages: not verifiedCheaperJina Embeddings v5 Text SmallunstatedOpen+11%-50%$0.05Languages: not verified

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BRIGHT · Mean over tasks · English16.3#13
BRIGHT · Mean over task types · English16.3#13
BRIGHT · Retrieval · English16.3#13
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian40.4#76
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese20.2#91
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese65.2#81
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English42.1#61
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English42.1#61
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English42.1#61
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German30.5#44
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German56.4#66
MTEB German v1 · STS · German57.3#56
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German49.1#117
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German36.5#56
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)48.7#43
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)51.4#99
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)53.2#51
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)38.3#74
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.2#65
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)85.1#51
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)52.7#82
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)13.9#73
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)54.5#25
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)55#27
MTEB French v1 · STS · French75.3#34
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)46#41
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French72.2#53
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French45.1#31
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French59.7#56
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.1#77
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French56.7#114
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)37.2#56
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)29.3#57
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)45.8#70
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)29.2#70
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)6#82
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)60.7#102
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi56.2#110
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)2.8#146
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)4.5#111
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean20.1#70
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean24.9#71
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch80.3#112
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish76.4#61
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish45.7#65
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish58.1#59
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.3#105
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)43.1#64
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)43.1#64
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)43.1#64
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)45.3#46
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)36.8#52
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)49.4#45
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English38.4#61
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese22.7#119
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-0.2#65
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-0.2#65
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-0.2#65
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish62.1#81
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish44#48
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish49.7#53
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai4.4#124
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai51.5#142
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)35.4#73
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)65.2#90
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian38.8#88
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian47.9#82
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian39.8#75
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian23.8#96
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian47.7#158
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian27.1#94
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English51.4#67
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)34.6#80
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German25.8#110
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)48#51
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)36.6#92
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)50.3#82
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)42.3#65
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)74.1#89
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)45.4#82
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)31.4#96
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.2#65
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)17.2#90
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)50.7#86

FAQ

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

$0.10 per 1M tokens.

Is Cohere Embed English v3.0 free to use?›

There is no free API; it costs $0.10 per 1M tokens.

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

#55 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Cohere Embed English v3.0 better than NV Embed v1?›

On MTEB English v2 · Clustering · English, Cohere Embed English v3.0 scores 49.3 vs 49.5 — about the same.

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

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

Is Cohere Embed English v3.0 open source?›

No, Cohere Embed English v3.0 is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is F2LLM 4B.

What is Cohere Embed English v3.0?›

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

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

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (cheaper), EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), F2LLM 4B (open weights).