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F2LLM v2 8B

Mar 2026
cF2LLM v2 8B
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59.8MTEB English v2
Mar 2026released
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41K tokensMax input
en, es, Estonian +80Languages

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

Full ranking →
1Gemini Embedding 2 Preview98.52Harrier OSS v1 27B93.63Octen Embedding 8B93.14Qwen 3 Embedding 8B935KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 251192.8
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18BidirLM Omni 2.5B Embedding9019F2LLM v2 8B89.820Gemini Embedding 00189.8

Strong at

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Embeddings & Retrieval#23 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+4%—$0.01Max input: 41K tokens → 33K tokens+1OOpenOcten Embedding 8B+4%——Languages: loses es, Estonian, Esperanto +78BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+3%—$0.02Max input: 41K tokens → 33K tokens+1BetterHarrier OSS v1 27BOpen+4%——Max input: 41K tokens → 33K tokens+1BetterKaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511Open+3%——Languages: not verified+1

Run it yourself

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Fits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · 8-bit✓ 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

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English57.5#25
BEIR · Mean over task types · English57.5#25
BEIR · Retrieval · English57.5#25
BRIGHT · Mean over tasks · English17.7#8
BRIGHT · Mean over task types · English17.7#8
BRIGHT · Retrieval · English17.7#8
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese67.7#16
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese67.9#16
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese73.6#27
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese51.7#39
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese67.2#27
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese71#10
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese66.8#50
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese77.2#9
ChemTEB · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)78.6#1
ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)59.3#1
ChemTEB · Classification · English86.6#2
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English75.7#10
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)77.4#2
ChemTEB · Clustering · English54.5#4
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English2.4#2
MTEB Persian v2 · Mean over tasks · Persian73#2
MTEB Persian v2 · Mean over task types · Persian75.2#2
MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian80.5#4
MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian67.1#5
MTEB Persian v2 · Classification · Persian75.8#4
MTEB Persian v2 · Retrieval · Persian64.7#2
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian73.2#5
MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian78.8#4
MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian86.6#3
JMTEB v2 · Mean over tasks · Japanese78.5#2
JMTEB v2 · Mean over task types · Japanese78.6#2
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese71.2#2
JMTEB v2 · Classification · Japanese81.1#2
JMTEB v2 · Retrieval · Japanese78.5#3
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese85.4#2
JMTEB v2 · Reranking · Japanese76.6#8
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English76.6#6
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English76.6#6
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English76.6#6
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German66.8#2
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German63.2#2
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German45.5#2
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German59.1#4
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German88.5#1
MTEB German v1 · STS · German74.7#6
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German59.1#5
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German52.1#22
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages)69.2#2
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (29 languages)60.4#2
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)66.8#2
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)76.3#6
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)89.8#19
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)74.9#2
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)57#2
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English0.8#39
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)89.9#12
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)65.1#2
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)22.7#11
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)72.7#1
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)69.8#2
MTEB French v1 · STS · French83.9#1
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)71.4#2
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French87.6#2
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French60#1
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French85.4#2
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.8#44
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French69.1#13
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)77.9#3
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)79.3#3
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)75.7#2
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)90.9#4
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)79.8#3
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)87.9#12
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi74.5#39
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)58#12
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)88.3#2
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)76.4#4
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)73.9#4
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean86#5
MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)76.4#6
MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean66.9#5
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean63.2#12
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean67.6#5
MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean83.5#2
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch65.8#3
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch69.3#5
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch74.6#2
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch50.2#3
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch66.1#7
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch82#16
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch43.2#1
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch79.9#22
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch89.3#41
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over tasks · Polish74.6#2
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over task types · Polish71.5#2
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish85.2#22
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish81.3#2
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish69.5#12
MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish49.8#2
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese21.4#46
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)63.5#13
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)63.5#13
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)63.5#13
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)64.9#4
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)68.1#3
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)64.8#15
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English55.9#4
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese83.6#38
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English0.8#39
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English0.8#39
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English0.8#39
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)72.9#2
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)74.3#2
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish71.8#23
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)78.9#15
MTEB Spanish v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)59.9#3
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish77.8#2
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish61.9#16
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish95.3#1
MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)77.6#2
MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)81.1#2
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai92.5#1
MTEB Thai v1 · Classification · Thai82.8#2
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai75.5#38
MTEB Thai v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)71.1#2
MTEB Thai v1 · Reranking · Thai83.7#2
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)69.9#2
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)68.5#2
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)52.5#2
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)75.5#2
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)74.1#6
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)71.9#33
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over tasks · Vietnamese63.3#2
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over task types · Vietnamese71.8#2
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Classification · Vietnamese85.4#2
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · STS · Vietnamese83#1
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Retrieval · Vietnamese47#2
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Clustering · Vietnamese59.7#2
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Reranking · Vietnamese70.5#1
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Pair Classification · Vietnamese85.3#1
CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages)79.6#4
CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages)79.6#4
CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages)79.6#4
CoREB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)59.4#9
CoREB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)59.4#9
CoREB v1 · Reranking · multilingual (6 languages)54.3#8
CoREB v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (6 languages)64.4#8
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages)80.2#5
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages)80.2#5
MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages)80.2#5
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian70.6#8
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian67#10
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian76#5
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian74#21
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian70.4#9
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian64.8#11
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian61.5#28
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian75.7#9
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian46.7#8
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English74.8#19
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)52.5#33
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German63.5#35
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)66.7#13
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)54.6#31
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)68.1#10
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)59#11
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)71.9#9
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)60.6#2
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)76.5#16
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)81.2#21
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)66.1#16
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)76#16
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English0.8#39
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)27.4#14
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)70.3#2

FAQ

How much does F2LLM v2 8B cost?›

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

Is F2LLM v2 8B free to use?›

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

How good is F2LLM v2 8B, and what is it best at?›

#23 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.

Is F2LLM v2 8B better than BidirLM Omni 2.5B Embedding?›

On MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages), F2LLM v2 8B scores 89.8 vs 90 — about the same.

When was F2LLM v2 8B released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-03-09. It is the current version in its line.

Is F2LLM v2 8B open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).

Can I run F2LLM v2 8B locally?›

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

What is F2LLM v2 8B?›

F2LLM v2 8B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from codefuse-ai, released Mar 2026.

What are the best alternatives to F2LLM v2 8B?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Octen Embedding 8B (open weights).