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DNA VL STEER 2B

Aug 2026
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self-host onlyprice
79.1MIEB lite
Aug 2026released
2,048 (or 64)Dimensions
33K tokensMax input
en, es, fr +32Languages

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1Ebind Full77.52EVA02 CLIP B 16743Siglip So400m Patch14 38473.84CLIP ViT BigG 14 Laion2B 39B B160k72.45Siglip Large Patch16 38471.3
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32Align Base50.733DNA VL STEER 2B48.834Voyage Multimodal 348.6

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Embeddings & Retrieval#38 of 89

Run it yourself

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Fits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · full quality✓ 16 GB · full quality✓ 24 GB GPU · full quality✓ 48 GB GPU · full quality✓ 80 GB GPU · full quality
LicenceApache-2.0free for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MIEB English · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)66.7#1
MIEB English · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)66.7#1
MIEB English · Document Understanding · English84#35
MIEB English · Zero-shot Classification · English57.6#22
MIEB English · Any-to-any Retrieval · English43.2#1
MIEB English · Visual semantic similarity (English) · multilingual (13 languages)80.7#3
MIEB English · Image Classification · English72.6#28
MIEB English · Compositionality · English44.9#7
MIEB English · Vision Centric QA · English71.4#1
MIEB English · Image Clustering · English78.9#18
MIEB Img · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)68.5#1
MIEB Img · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)68.5#1
MIEB Img · Image Classification · English72.6#28
MIEB Img · Any-to-any Retrieval · English38.1#14
MIEB Img · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English79.4#3
MIEB Img · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)73.6#5
MIEB Img · Image Clustering · English78.9#18
MIEB lite · Mean over tasks · multilingual (41 languages)64.3#4
MIEB lite · Mean over task types · multilingual (41 languages)64.3#4
MIEB lite · Vision Centric QA · English78#1
MIEB lite · Any-to-any Retrieval · English37.2#4
MIEB lite · Document Understanding · English79.1#38
MIEB lite · Zero-shot Classification · English48.8#33
MIEB lite · Compositionality · English37.2#15
MIEB lite · Image Classification · English70.2#26
MIEB lite · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages)63.7#3
MIEB lite · Image Clustering · English75.4#20
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English82.2#5
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)71#6
MIEB multilingual · Mean over tasks · multilingual (41 languages)67.5#1
MIEB multilingual · Mean over task types · multilingual (41 languages)67.5#1
MIEB multilingual · Zero-shot Classification · English57.6#22
MIEB multilingual · Image Classification · English72.6#28
MIEB multilingual · Document Understanding · English84#35
MIEB multilingual · Any-to-any Retrieval · English43.2#1
MIEB multilingual · Compositionality · English44.9#7
MIEB multilingual · Vision Centric QA · English71.4#1
MIEB multilingual · Visual semantic similarity (English) · multilingual (13 languages)80.7#3
MIEB multilingual · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)71#6
MIEB multilingual · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages)71#1
MIEB multilingual · Image Clustering · English78.9#18

FAQ

How much does DNA VL STEER 2B cost?›

There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.

Is DNA VL STEER 2B free to use?›

There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is DNA VL STEER 2B, and what is it best at?›

#38 of 89 in Multimodal.

Is DNA VL STEER 2B better than Align Base?›

On MIEB lite · Zero-shot Classification · English, DNA VL STEER 2B scores 48.8 vs 50.7 — lower.

When was DNA VL STEER 2B released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-08-27. It is the current version in its line.

Is DNA VL STEER 2B open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).

Can I run DNA VL STEER 2B locally?›

The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.

What is DNA VL STEER 2B?›

DNA VL STEER 2B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from dnotitia, released Aug 2026.

What are the best alternatives to DNA VL STEER 2B?›

EmbeddingGemma 2 (better), Ebind Full (open weights).