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
1K tokensMax input
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Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 082668.32Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826683FRIDA67.54Giga Embeddings Instruct67.55Qwen 3 Embedding 8B66.7
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100Mmlw E5 Small25101Cohere Embed English v3.023.8102Udever Bloom 1b122.5

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Embeddings & Retrieval#55 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen×2.8-90%$0.01Languages: not verifiedBetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen×2.5-98%$0.002Languages: not verifiedaOpenGiga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826unstated×2.9——CheaperQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen×2.7-80%$0.02Languages: not verifiediCheaperE5 Mistral 7B InstructunstatedOpen×2.7-78%$0.022

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#97
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese65.2#87
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English42.1#61
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English42.1#61
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English42.1#61
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German56.4#69
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German49.1#124
MTEB German v1 · STS · German57.3#61
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German30.5#47
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German36.5#56
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)53.2#54
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.2#65
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)13.9#73
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)85.1#64
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)38.3#74
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)48.7#55
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)52.7#82
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)51.4#100
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#38
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)46#46
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French59.7#59
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French45.1#31
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French72.2#61
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French56.7#114
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.1#81
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)37.2#60
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)29.3#61
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)45.8#77
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)6#87
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)2.8#147
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)60.7#103
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)29.2#76
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi56.2#111
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)4.5#112
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean24.9#79
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean20.1#72
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch80.3#112
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish45.7#71
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish58.1#64
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish76.4#69
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.3#106
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)43.1#68
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)43.1#68
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)43.1#68
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)45.3#49
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)36.8#55
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)49.4#48
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English38.4#61
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese22.7#124
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 · Clustering · Spanish44#48
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish62.1#81
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish49.7#53
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai51.5#143
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai4.4#125
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)35.4#80
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)65.2#90
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian38.8#91
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian23.8#101
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian39.8#75
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian27.1#99
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian47.9#84
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian47.7#159
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English51.4#72
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)34.6#82
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German25.8#118
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)48#53
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)36.6#99
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)42.3#65
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)50.3#83
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)45.4#84
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)17.2#90
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)31.4#97
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.2#65
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)50.7#87
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)74.1#89

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 Mmlw E5 Small?›

On MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian, Cohere Embed English v3.0 scores 23.8 vs 25 — lower.

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 Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826.

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), Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826 (open weights).