English Code Retriever measured on 6 of 261 Embeddings benchmarks6
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44.8CoIR
Jul 2025released
768Dimensions
8K tokensMax input
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Alternatives?
ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+50%—$0.002Max input: 8K tokens → 2K tokens+2
OpenQwen 3 Embedding 8Bunstated+78%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1
Betterpplx Embed v1 0.6BOpen+66%—$0.004Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+67%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+77%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
EmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+50%—$0.002Max input: 8K tokens → 2K tokens+2pplx Embed v1 0.6BOpen+66%—$0.004Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+78%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+67%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+77%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+78%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1cC2LLM 7BOpen+78%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.6 GBcF2LLM v2 8BunstatedOpen+78%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.5 GBcF2LLM v2 4BunstatedOpen+78%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 2.4 GBQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+77%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1Run 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
LicenceMITfree for commercial use
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How much does English Code Retriever cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
Is English Code Retriever free to use?›
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
How good is English Code Retriever, and what is it best at?›
#53 of 58 in Embeddings.
Is English Code Retriever better than Granite Embedding 278M Multilingual?›
On CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages), English Code Retriever scores 44.8 vs 45.4 — about the same.
When was English Code Retriever released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2025-07-10. It is the current version in its line.
Is English Code Retriever open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).
Can I run English Code Retriever locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is English Code Retriever?›
English Code Retriever is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from fyaronskiy, released Jul 2025.
What are the best alternatives to English Code Retriever?›
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (open weights).