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E5 Large v2

Feb 2024
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$0.01per 1M tokens
49.3MTEB English v2
Feb 2024released
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1K tokensMax input
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Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1Harrier OSS v1 0.6B70.62F2LLM v2 14B67.23F2LLM v2 8B66.84Voyage 366.75Qwen 3 Embedding 8B66.5
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61E5 Base v244.962E5 Large v244.863Cohere Embed English Light v3.044.8

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Embeddings & Retrieval#112 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+36%-80%$0.002Languages: not verifiedOpenHarrier OSS v1 0.6Bunstated+58%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 0.4 GBiCheaperE5 Base v2unstatedOpensame-50%$0.005CheaperBge Base En v1.5unstatedOpen-9%-50%$0.005tCheaperGte BaseunstatedOpen-13%-50%$0.005

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
LicenceMITfree for commercial use

History

2 versions
4343.54444.545Jan 23Apr 23Jul 23Oct 23Jan 24Release dateMTEB Europe · RetrievalE5 · DecE5 · Feb
4343.54444.545Jan 23Jul 23Jan 24Release dateMTEB Europe · RetrievalE5 · Dec

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English50.6#99
BEIR · Mean over task types · English50.6#99
BEIR · Retrieval · English50.6#99
ChemTEB · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)69.2#28
ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)50.2#24
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English76.9#7
ChemTEB · Clustering · English38.2#34
ChemTEB · Classification · English80.1#35
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0.2#22
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)55.6#33
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian38#81
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese22.9#89
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese67.7#80
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English42.9#57
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English42.9#57
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English42.9#57
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German45.7#41
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German44.6#41
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German56.1#71
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German48.8#149
MTEB German v1 · STS · German55.9#63
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German28.3#59
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German43.6#41
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German34.9#62
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages)50.4#32
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (29 languages)44.8#32
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)51.5#69
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-1#86
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)11.7#110
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)69#51
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)84.9#68
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)36.1#100
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)44.8#62
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)52.4#84
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)53.8#99
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)51.9#35
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)53.3#34
MTEB French v1 · STS · French75.3#39
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)42.4#54
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French58.3#63
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French40.4#66
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French70.5#66
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French56#125
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.4#64
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)36.8#63
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)28.4#62
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)45.8#76
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)7.6#76
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)3.1#143
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)54.6#116
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)26.5#78
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi57.1#107
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)4#124
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean45.4#60
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean23.1#88
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean13.9#87
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch43.1#66
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch50.9#67
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch42#65
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch50.4#75
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch31.6#70
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch64.7#74
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch23#86
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch82.4#97
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch62.4#88
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over tasks · Polish51.2#43
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over task types · Polish51.5#41
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish44#75
MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish27.1#71
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish58.6#61
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish76.3#70
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese16.9#168
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)41.7#76
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)41.7#76
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)41.7#76
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)41.2#57
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)34.1#64
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)44.7#60
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English34.5#137
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese23.1#123
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-1#86
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-1#86
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-1#86
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)71.2#45
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish43.6#50
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish62#82
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish45.4#60
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish83.1#36
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai51.7#138
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai3.3#170
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)47.6#57
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)49.6#53
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)51.7#76
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)47.1#59
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)32.9#105
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)66.7#77
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian34.3#59
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian34.1#58
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian38.2#92
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian22#105
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian34.7#82
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian27.2#96
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian51#80
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian18.1#56
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian47.3#165
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)29.6#94
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German27.2#112
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)33.9#116
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)46.6#63
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)40.3#62
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)39.8#103
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)61.9#72
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)49.8#85
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)40.1#95
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)15.8#120
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)33.8#94
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-1#86
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)48.8#94
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)73.9#90

FAQ

How much does E5 Large v2 cost?›

$0.01 per 1M tokens.

Is E5 Large v2 free to use?›

There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.01 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is E5 Large v2, and what is it best at?›

#112 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is E5 Large v2 better than E5 Base v2?›

On MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages), E5 Large v2 scores 44.8 vs 44.9 — about the same. It is 100% more expensive.

How can I use E5 Large v2?›

Through the intfloat API.

When was E5 Large v2 released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-02-08. It is the current version in its line.

Is E5 Large v2 open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).

Can I run E5 Large v2 locally?›

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

What is E5 Large v2?›

E5 Large v2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from intfloat, released Feb 2024.

What are the best alternatives to E5 Large v2?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (cheaper), Harrier OSS v1 0.6B (open weights).