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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 3B75.92Qwen 3 VL Embedding 2B75.73LCO Embedding Omni 7B74.94Qwen 3 VL Embedding 8B74.65BidirLM Omni 2.5B Embedding73.8
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15Pe Av Large71.216E5 Omni 7B70.717E5 Omni 3B70.4

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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

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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 Pair Classification · English65.5#6
MAEB v1 · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)1.8#28
MAEB v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (150 languages)56.1#1
MAEB v1 · Audio Zero-shot Classification · English68.8#1
MAEB v1 · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)52.2#6
MAEB v1 · Audio Multilabel Classification · English68.8#15
MAEB v1 · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content86.7#1
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 Pair Classification · English65.5#6
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content86.7#1
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)1.8#28
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
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 · Any-to-any Retrieval · English38.1#2
MIEB lite · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages)66.1#1
MIEB lite · Document Understanding · English83.1#31
MIEB lite · Zero-shot Classification · English55.6#25
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)77.3#3
MIEB lite · Vision Centric QA · English69.3#3
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English80.5#8
MIEB lite · Image Classification · English68.3#32
MIEB lite · Compositionality · English40.4#6
MIEB lite · Image Clustering · English73.3#23
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 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)54.7#8
MVEB v1 · Video Zero-shot Classification · English50.2#7
MVEB v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · English59.4#5
MVEB v1 · Video Centric QA · English43.8#14
MVEB v1 · Video Pair Classification · English77.3#6
MVEB v1 · Video Clustering · English21.5#6
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 Classification · multilingual (16 languages)45.3#14
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 Pair Classification · English84.3#9
MVEB text video v1 · Video Clustering · English3.5#23
MVEB text video v1 · Video Centric QA · English26.5#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 Pair Classification · English70.7#16
MVEB video v1 · Video Classification · multilingual (16 languages)48.2#14
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 Pe Av Large?›

On MVEB video v1 · Video Pair Classification · English, E5 Omni 7B scores 70.7 vs 71.2 — 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 3B (open weights).