ColUltraVBERT measured on 5 of 203 Multimodal benchmarks5
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82.6MIEB lite
Oct 2026released
33K tokensMax input
en, es, fr +3Languages
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31Granite Vision 3.3 2B Embedding77.732ColUltraVBERT77.433Eager Embed v177Strong at
Alternatives?
ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterJina Embeddings v4unstatedOpen+5%—$0.05Languages: not verified+1DOpenArgus Colqwen3.5 9B v0unstated+11%——Languages: loses es, fr, de +2+1vBetterVultronRetrieverPrime Qwen3.5 8BOpen+10%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 5 GBOBetterOps Colqwen3 4BOpen+10%——Languages: not verified+1
BetterNemotron Colembed VL 8B v2Open+10%——Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
Jina Embeddings v4unstatedOpen+5%—$0.05Languages: not verified+1DArgus Colqwen3.5 9B v0unstatedOpen+11%——Languages: loses es, fr, de +2+1vVultronRetrieverPrime Qwen3.5 8BOpen+10%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 5 GBOOps Colqwen3 4BOpen+10%——Languages: not verified+1Nemotron Colembed VL 8B v2Open+10%——Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
DArgus Colqwen3.5 9B v0unstatedOpen+11%——Languages: loses es, fr, de +2+1vVultronRetrieverPrime Qwen3.5 8BOpen+10%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 5 GBOOps Colqwen3 4BOpen+10%——Languages: not verified+1Nemotron Colembed VL 8B v2Open+10%——Languages: not verified+1vVultronRetrieverCore Qwen3.5 4.5BOpen+9%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 2.7 GBModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
aColqwen3.5 4.5B v3Open+8%——Languages: loses pt, it+1aBiUltraVBERTOpen-20%——All athrael-soju models →Run it yourself
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LicenceMITfree for commercial use
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in Embeddings & RetrievalFAQ
How much does ColUltraVBERT cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
Is ColUltraVBERT free to use?›
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
How good is ColUltraVBERT, and what is it best at?›
#32 of 89 in Multimodal.
Is ColUltraVBERT better than Granite Vision 3.3 2B Embedding?›
On ViDoRe v1&v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages), ColUltraVBERT scores 77.4 vs 77.7 — about the same.
When was ColUltraVBERT released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2026-10-17. It is the current version in its line.
Is ColUltraVBERT open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).
Can I run ColUltraVBERT locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is ColUltraVBERT?›
ColUltraVBERT is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from athrael-soju, released Oct 2026.
What are the best alternatives to ColUltraVBERT?›
Jina Embeddings v4 (better), Argus Colqwen3.5 9B v0 (open weights).