Cohere Embed Multilingual Light v3.0

Nov 2023
Cohere Embed Multilingual Light v3.0
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52.1MTEB English v2
Nov 2023released
1K tokensMax input
en, es, fr +101Languages

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1Ko Embed Cls84.42PwC Embedding Expr733Qwen 3 Embedding 8B69.14F2LLM v2 14B68.65F2LLM v2 8B67.6
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25Bilingual Embedding Large59.126Cohere Embed Multilingual Light v3.058.827Ko Embed v058.5

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Embeddings & Retrieval#88 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+18%—$0.01Languages: not verifiedNOpenKo Embed Cls+44%——Languages: loses en, es, fr +100iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+6%—$0.01Languages: loses af, am, as +88iBetterMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen+3%—$0.01Languages: loses af, am, as +88BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+15%—$0.02Languages: not verified

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian71.4#16
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese51#27
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese80.3#37
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English39.1#80
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English39.1#80
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English39.1#80
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German32.9#33
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German64.5#45
MTEB German v1 · STS · German69.4#25
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German50.9#67
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German48.3#36
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)53.1#34
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)79.9#81
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)57.8#33
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)41#57
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.5#145
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)87#43
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)57#60
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)16.5#53
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)58.5#18
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)58.7#18
MTEB French v1 · STS · French78.8#18
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)52.9#29
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French79.2#29
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French46.5#20
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French65#38
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French31.4#20
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French56.7#116
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)66.1#15
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)64.6#15
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)65.2#16
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)80.1#20
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)71.7#20
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)85.8#35
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi73.1#49
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)42.5#45
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)34#55
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean54.6#33
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean58.8#26
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch87.6#64
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish80.9#44
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish58#38
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish66.1#34
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.8#87
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)50.2#49
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)50.2#49
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)50.2#49
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)56.1#29
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)54.5#32
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)59.2#29
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English36.1#93
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese68.2#78
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2.5#145
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2.5#145
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2.5#145
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish63.4#69
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish44.9#38
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish62.1#13
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai44.7#53
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai68.3#68
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)56.9#25
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)57.1#27
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)41.3#34
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)59.7#38
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)63.1#29
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)64.4#98
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian58.4#51
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian70#50
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian66.2#28
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian53.8#46
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian56.7#70
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian32.9#57
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)41.8#62
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German44.2#77
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)40.4#79
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)58.5#48
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)44.8#53
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)77#66
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)55.8#61
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)65#55
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.5#145
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)20.1#60
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)62#52

FAQ

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

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

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

#88 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Cohere Embed Multilingual Light v3.0 better than Bilingual Embedding Large?›

On MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean, Cohere Embed Multilingual Light v3.0 scores 58.8 vs 59.1 — about the same.

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

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

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

No, Cohere Embed Multilingual Light v3.0 is a closed model available through an API. The closest open-weights option here is Ko Embed Cls.

What is Cohere Embed Multilingual Light v3.0?›

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

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

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Ko Embed Cls (open weights).