Harrier OSS v1 0.6B

Mar 2026
Harrier OSS v1 0.6B
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42.3MTEB Medical v1
Mar 2026released
1,024Dimensions
33K tokensMax input
en, Esperanto, es +90Languages

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1Nemotron 3 Embed 8B Legal702Nemotron 3 Embed 8B BF1669.83F2LLM v2 14B67.24Llama Embed Nemotron 8B675Qwen 3 Embedding 8B66.8
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27BidirLM 1.7B Embedding59.328Harrier OSS v1 0.6B59.229Jina Embeddings v359.1

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+4%—$0.002Max input: 33K tokens → 2K tokens+1mOpenNemotron 3 Embed 8B Legal+18%——Languages: loses Esperanto, es, Estonian +89+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+13%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterNemotron 3 Embed 1B BF16Open+3%—$0.015Languages: loses Esperanto, Estonian, Javanese +57+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+10%—$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
LicenceMITfree for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
JMTEB v2 · Mean over tasks · Japanese72.7#7
JMTEB v2 · Mean over task types · Japanese72.6#6
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese56.3#9
JMTEB v2 · Classification · Japanese71.9#7
JMTEB v2 · Retrieval · Japanese73.9#11
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese84.8#4
JMTEB v2 · Reranking · Japanese76.3#10
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)91.9#8
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)48.3#19
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English0.8#40
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)58.5#46
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)21.8#14
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French64.1#39
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)82#71
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi79.5#19
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)53.3#21
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)51.6#17
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch59.4#17
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch65#18
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch65.3#19
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch44.9#19
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch59.2#28
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch81.2#19
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch38.7#19
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch79.6#25
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch85.8#82
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese27.7#10
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English0.8#40
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English0.8#40
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English0.8#40
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish74.5#15
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai57.7#17
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai79.8#19
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)81.2#11
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian64.3#22
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)69#7
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)59#10
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)73.9#5
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)54#17
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)77.1#13
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)82.1#15
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)70.8#7
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)82.8#4
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English0.8#40
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)26.4#19
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)63.2#41

FAQ

How much does Harrier OSS v1 0.6B cost?›

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

Is Harrier OSS v1 0.6B free to use?›

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

How good is Harrier OSS v1 0.6B, and what is it best at?›

#38 of 220 in Embeddings.

Is Harrier OSS v1 0.6B better than BidirLM 1.7B Embedding?›

On MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch, Harrier OSS v1 0.6B scores 59.2 vs 59.3 — about the same.

When was Harrier OSS v1 0.6B released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-03-27. It is the current version in its line.

Is Harrier OSS v1 0.6B open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).

Can I run Harrier OSS v1 0.6B locally?›

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

What is Harrier OSS v1 0.6B?›

Harrier OSS v1 0.6B is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Microsoft, released Mar 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Harrier OSS v1 0.6B?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Nemotron 3 Embed 8B Legal (open weights).