Granite Embedding 125M English

Dec 2024
Granite Embedding 125M English
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55.7MTEB English v2
Dec 2024released
768Dimensions
1K tokensMax input
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1F2LLM v2 14B79.92Qwen 3 Embedding 8B79.93C2LLM 7B79.64F2LLM v2 8B79.65F2LLM v2 4B79.6
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50Multilingual E5 Small51.351Granite Embedding 125M English50.352B1ade Embed50.1

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Embeddings & Retrieval#56 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+34%—$0.002Languages: not verified+1OpenQwen 3 Embedding 8Bunstated+59%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1Betterpplx Embed v1 0.6BOpen+48%—$0.004Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+49%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+57%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1

Run it yourself

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Fits 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

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English52.3#72
BEIR · Mean over task types · English52.3#72
BEIR · Retrieval · English52.3#72
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian33.4#98
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese13.8#121
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese72#72
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English42.2#60
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English42.2#60
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English42.2#60
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German40.2#57
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German40#51
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German24.7#85
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German39.1#50
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German46.2#129
MTEB German v1 · STS · German51#77
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German50.3#78
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German28.5#73
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)43.3#60
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)40.3#116
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)47.4#110
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)36.2#98
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.3#95
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)81.3#103
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)50.4#105
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)13.3#87
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)49.5#49
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)51.4#47
MTEB French v1 · STS · French69.2#64
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)38.9#63
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French69.8#61
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French43#37
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French51.4#94
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French27.3#146
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French59.9#72
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)34.2#73
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)24.9#75
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)44.3#80
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)17.9#82
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)5.5#85
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)49.4#127
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi51.8#161
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)2.3#151
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)3.2#150
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean11.2#97
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean21.6#105
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch40.8#78
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch47.3#88
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch47.3#89
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch24.3#77
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch39.6#72
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch56.5#105
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch31#77
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch58.2#124
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch73.9#163
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish62.2#116
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish37.9#128
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish52.8#89
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19#114
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)40.3#81
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)40.3#81
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)40.3#81
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)40.8#58
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)34.5#58
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)43.9#63
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English35.7#111
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese24#114
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-1.3#95
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-1.3#95
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-1.3#95
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish57.1#138
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish41.2#74
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish40.5#72
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai4.5#121
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai53.7#107
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)32.6#102
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)46.9#131
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)65.4#88
CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages)50.3#51
CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages)50.3#51
CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages)50.3#51
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages)53.3#45
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages)53.3#45
MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages)53.3#45
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian26.2#79
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian27.4#72
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian29#119
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian35.6#116
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian27.3#97
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian16.2#117
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian46.6#172
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian11#65
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian25.8#128
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)22.9#119
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German13.3#161
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)32.9#119
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)47#119
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)40.4#92
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)71#152
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)39.3#100
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)26.6#113
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.3#95
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)16.8#97
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)46#107

FAQ

How much does Granite Embedding 125M English cost?›

There is no per-unit API price: price not verified.

How good is Granite Embedding 125M English, and what is it best at?›

#56 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Granite Embedding 125M English better than Multilingual E5 Small?›

On CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages), Granite Embedding 125M English scores 50.3 vs 51.3 — about the same.

When was Granite Embedding 125M English released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-12-18. It is the current version in its line.

Is Granite Embedding 125M English open source?›

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

Can I run Granite Embedding 125M English locally?›

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

What is Granite Embedding 125M English?›

Granite Embedding 125M English is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from IBM, released Dec 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Granite Embedding 125M English?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (open weights).