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61.6MTEB Scandinavian v1
Oct 2025released
2K tokensMax input
Danish, Norwegian, Swahili, SwedishLanguages
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+27%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1cOpenF2LLM v2 8Bunstated+28%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 4.5 GBBetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+9%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+8%—$0.01Max input: 2K tokens → 1K tokens+1
BetterBge M3unstatedOpen+4%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+27%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+9%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+8%—$0.01Max input: 2K tokens → 1K tokens+1Bge M3unstatedOpen+4%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+23%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
cF2LLM v2 8BunstatedOpen+28%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 4.5 GBQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+27%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1cF2LLM v2 4BunstatedOpen+25%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 2.4 GBQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+23%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1cF2LLM v2 1.7BunstatedOpen+23%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 1 GBModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
eQwen 3 Embedding Scandi 0.6BOpensame——Languages: loses SwahiliAll emillykkejensen models →Run it yourself
estimateFits 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
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How much does EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
Is EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M free to use?›
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
How good is EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M, and what is it best at?›
#122 of 205 in Embeddings.
Is EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M better than Voyage 3 Lite?›
On MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages), EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M scores 59.1 vs 59.3 — about the same.
When was EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2025-10-17. It is the current version in its line.
Is EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
Can I run EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M?›
EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from emillykkejensen, released Oct 2025.
What are the best alternatives to EmbeddingGemma Scandi 300M?›
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).