Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2

Apr 2026
Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2
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50.1MTEB English v2
Apr 2026released
384 (or 768, 512)Dimensions
33K tokensMax input
en, es, Estonian +49Languages

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1F2LLM v2 14B79.92Qwen 3 Embedding 8B79.93C2LLM 7B79.64F2LLM v2 8B79.65F2LLM v2 4B79.6
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42Text Embedding 00559.743Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R258.744Bekko Embedding v1 A25m58.4

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Embeddings & Retrieval#106 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+15%—$0.002Max input: 33K tokens → 2K tokens+2OpenQwen 3 Embedding 8Bunstated+36%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1Betterpplx Embed v1 0.6BOpen+27%—$0.004Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+28%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+35%—$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 · English47.3#121
BEIR · Mean over task types · English47.3#121
BEIR · Retrieval · English47.3#121
BRIGHT · Mean over tasks · English10.5#23
BRIGHT · Mean over task types · English10.5#23
BRIGHT · Retrieval · English10.5#23
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese40.9#68
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese56.4#61
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese59#72
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese62.5#37
ChemTEB · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)70#23
ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)49.1#30
ChemTEB · Classification · English81.1#26
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English69.2#31
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)60.9#14
ChemTEB · Clustering · English33.9#34
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0.2#31
MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian69.8#32
MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian59.8#17
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian67.7#35
MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian58.5#20
MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian79.5#29
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English65.5#28
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English65.5#28
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English65.5#28
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)72.6#91
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)39.9#64
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2#128
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)55.8#67
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)14.5#67
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French62.5#47
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)79.2#77
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi59.4#98
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)16.8#88
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)22.5#86
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch51.4#50
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch57.6#54
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch55#64
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch33.5#40
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch54.7#50
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch70.2#66
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch35.3#44
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch69.9#62
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch84.6#90
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.3#102
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese67.6#80
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2#128
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2#128
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2#128
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish60.8#98
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai43#59
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai59.6#99
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)57.4#155
CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages)58.7#43
CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages)58.7#43
CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages)58.7#43
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages)60.4#38
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages)60.4#38
MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages)60.4#38
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian53.8#99
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English48.1#72
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)31.5#88
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German34.3#93
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)41.2#66
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)38.4#86
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)51.9#55
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)45.9#52
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)49.6#87
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)43.6#57
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)65.6#66
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)74.5#86
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)60.3#40
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)44.2#88
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2#128
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)17.9#81
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)59.4#71

FAQ

How much does Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2 cost?›

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

Is Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2 free to use?›

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

How good is Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2, and what is it best at?›

#106 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2 better than Text Embedding 005?›

On CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages), Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2 scores 58.7 vs 59.7 — lower.

When was Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2 released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-04-29. It is the current version in its line.

Is Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2 open source?›

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

Can I run Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2 locally?›

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

What is Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2?›

Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from IBM, released Apr 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Granite Embedding 97M Multilingual R2?›

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