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E5 Omni 7B

Jan 2026
HE5 Omni 7B
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83.1MIEB lite
Jan 2026released
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33K tokensMax input

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1LCO Embedding Omni 7B86.22LCO Embedding Omni 3B85.73Voyage Multimodal 384.24Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small83.45DNA VL STEER 2B82.2
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7E5 V81.28E5 Omni 7B80.59Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano77.9

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Fits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · compressed✓ 16 GB · 8-bit✓ 24 GB GPU · full quality✓ 48 GB GPU · full quality✓ 80 GB GPU · full quality
LicenceMITfree for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MAEB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (159 languages)52.5#2
MAEB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (159 languages)57.1#1
MAEB v1 · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)52.2#6
MAEB v1 · Audio Zero-shot Classification · English68.8#1
MAEB v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (150 languages)56.1#1
MAEB v1 · Audio Pair Classification · English65.5#6
MAEB v1 · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content86.7#1
MAEB v1 · Audio Multilabel Classification · English68.8#15
MAEB v1 · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)1.8#28
MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over tasks · multilingual (102 languages)50.2#5
MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over task types · multilingual (102 languages)59.6#1
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)52.2#6
MAEB v1 audio-only · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (4 languages)92#8
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)1.8#28
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Pair Classification · English65.5#6
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content86.7#1
MIEB Img · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)78.6#3
MIEB lite · Mean over tasks · multilingual (41 languages)65.2#3
MIEB lite · Mean over task types · multilingual (41 languages)65.2#3
MIEB lite · Vision Centric QA · English69.3#3
MIEB lite · Any-to-any Retrieval · English38.1#2
MIEB lite · Document Understanding · English83.1#31
MIEB lite · Zero-shot Classification · English55.6#25
MIEB lite · Compositionality · English40.4#6
MIEB lite · Image Classification · English68.3#32
MIEB lite · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages)66.1#1
MIEB lite · Image Clustering · English73.3#23
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English80.5#8
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)77.3#3
MIEB multilingual · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)77.3#3
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English35.5#118
MVEB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (16 languages)55#4
MVEB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (16 languages)51.2#4
MVEB v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · English59.4#5
MVEB v1 · Video Zero-shot Classification · English50.2#7
MVEB v1 · Video Pair Classification · English77.3#6
MVEB v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)54.7#8
MVEB v1 · Video Clustering · English21.5#6
MVEB v1 · Video Centric QA · English43.8#14
MVEB text video v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (16 languages)54.1#5
MVEB text video v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (16 languages)46.5#6
MVEB text video v1 · Video Zero-shot Classification · English55.8#6
MVEB text video v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · English63.6#3
MVEB text video v1 · Video Clustering · English3.5#23
MVEB text video v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)45.3#14
MVEB text video v1 · Video Centric QA · English26.5#9
MVEB text video v1 · Video Pair Classification · English84.3#9
MVEB video v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (16 languages)55.7#13
MVEB video v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (16 languages)59.4#15
MVEB video v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)48.2#14
MVEB video v1 · Video Pair Classification · English70.7#16
MMEB-V2lab65.9

FAQ

How much does E5 Omni 7B cost?›

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

Is E5 Omni 7B free to use?›

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

How good is E5 Omni 7B, and what is it best at?›

#31 of 89 in Multimodal.

Is E5 Omni 7B better than E5 V?›

On MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English, E5 Omni 7B scores 80.5 vs 81.2 — about the same.

When was E5 Omni 7B released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-01-06. It is the current version in its line.

Is E5 Omni 7B open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).

Can I run E5 Omni 7B locally?›

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

What is E5 Omni 7B?›

E5 Omni 7B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Haon-Chen, released Jan 2026.

What are the best alternatives to E5 Omni 7B?›

Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small (better), LCO Embedding Omni 7B (open weights).