Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct

Jul 2024
Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct
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50.3MTEB English v2
Jul 2024released
1,536Dimensions
33K tokensMax input

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1Gemini Embedding 2 Preview91.72Harrier OSS v1 27B863KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 251183.84Harrier OSS v1 0.6B82.85Llama Embed Nemotron 8B81.7
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60Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.064.161Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct62.562Text Embedding 3 Large62.2

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Embeddings & Retrieval#105 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+29%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.9 GB → 4.5 GBOpenKaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511+34%——Memory (4-bit): 0.9 GB → 7.1 GBiBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+28%—$0.01Max input: 33K tokens → 1K tokensBetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+16%—$0.01BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+27%—$0.02Memory (4-bit): 0.9 GB → 2.4 GB

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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 · English58.3#21
BEIR · Mean over task types · English58.3#21
BEIR · Retrieval · English58.3#21
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese71.9#38
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese60#26
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese68.2#20
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese54.6#37
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese79.5#27
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian71.9#13
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese53.7#17
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese78.8#54
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English44.1#54
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English44.1#54
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English44.1#54
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German36.6#18
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German76#17
MTEB German v1 · STS · German69.7#22
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German57.9#9
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German53.6#12
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)58.7#10
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)84.2#62
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)62.4#17
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)45.6#38
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English0.7#42
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)90.5#7
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)56.6#63
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)19.1#31
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)56.9#23
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French83.8#11
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French55.5#12
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French77.8#12
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.5#54
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French71.8#8
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)60.4#28
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)56.9#33
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)62.3#28
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)76.1#36
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)47.5#46
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)83.9#50
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi74.3#40
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)22.7#80
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)31.6#67
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean58.2#21
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean62.8#13
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch89.2#42
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish84.9#25
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish72.3#8
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish68.1#21
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese21.2#53
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)55.6#31
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)55.6#31
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)55.6#31
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)65#3
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)65.9#6
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)67.6#5
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English42.1#43
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese88.1#19
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English0.7#42
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English0.7#42
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English0.7#42
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish77#11
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish46.5#28
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish64.7#1
MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)38#25
MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)48.8#25
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai54.7#29
MTEB Thai v1 · Classification · Thai44.6#31
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai81.5#14
MTEB Thai v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)25.9#26
MTEB Thai v1 · Reranking · Thai37.4#26
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)46.7#17
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)63.9#21
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)66.8#73
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Classification · Vietnamese67.4#11
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · STS · Vietnamese78.6#15
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Clustering · Vietnamese49.9#10
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Reranking · Vietnamese64.7#11
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian68.6#22
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian71.1#43
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian67.7#24
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian62.4#20
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian60.5#37
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian43.7#15
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)50.6#39
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German45.9#70
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)45.1#65
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)81.6#18
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)60.8#38
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)62.5#61
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English0.7#42
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)24#36
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)62.6#48

FAQ

How much does Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct cost?›

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

Is Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct free to use?›

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

How good is Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct, and what is it best at?›

#105 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct better than Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.0?›

On MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages), Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct scores 62.5 vs 64.1 — lower.

When was Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-07-29. It is the current version in its line.

Is Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct open source?›

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

Can I run Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct locally?›

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

What is Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct?›

Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Alibaba (Qwen), released Jul 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 (open weights).