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

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1Octen Embedding 8B77.62Octen Law 8B v177.43Octen Embedding 8B INT877.24MoD Embedding74.35Octen Embedding 4B73.9
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43Text Embedding 3 Large52.644Harrier OSS v1 0.6B5145Inf Retriever v1 1.5B50.6

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+32%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1OOpenOcten Embedding 8B+52%——Languages: loses Esperanto, es, Estonian +88+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+12%—$0.01Languages: not verifiedBetterNemotron 3 Embed 1B BF16Open+20%—$0.015Languages: loses Esperanto, Estonian, Javanese +57+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+24%—$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
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese65.7#21
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese66.4#21
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese50.1#47
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese64.8#24
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese65.5#42
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese71.3#41
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese75.4#17
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese71.3#43
JMTEB v2 · Mean over tasks · Japanese72.7#7
JMTEB v2 · Mean over task types · Japanese72.6#6
JMTEB v2 · Classification · Japanese71.9#7
JMTEB v2 · Retrieval · Japanese73.9#11
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese56.3#9
JMTEB v2 · Reranking · Japanese76.3#10
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese84.8#6
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German81.3#12
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German55.4#24
MTEB German v1 · STS · German73.5#14
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German38.6#15
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English0.8#40
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)21.8#14
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)77.4#9
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)91.5#5
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)48.3#19
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)70.6#1
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)58.5#46
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)91.9#8
MTEB French v1 · STS · French83.7#5
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)59.4#21
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French79.4#10
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French83.1#21
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French64.1#39
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.4#60
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)70.8#7
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)71#9
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)68.8#9
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)80.3#2
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)53.3#21
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)82#71
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)81.2#21
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi79.5#19
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)51.6#17
MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean69.1#11
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean83.2#18
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean59.8#26
MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean65.8#11
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch59.4#17
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch65#18
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch59.2#28
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch65.3#19
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch38.7#19
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch81.2#19
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch44.9#19
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch85.8#82
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch79.6#26
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over tasks · Polish70.5#8
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over task types · Polish68.6#9
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish72.3#12
MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish46.6#15
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish70.7#6
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish85#29
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese64.3#16
MTEB Portuguese v1 · STS · Portuguese82.5#9
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese27.7#10
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English42.3#40
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese83.5#39
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English0.8#40
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English0.8#40
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English0.8#40
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)81.3#8
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish74.5#15
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish91.3#14
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai79.8#19
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai57.7#17
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)65.2#8
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)66.6#6
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)69.4#10
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)66.2#28
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)49.5#17
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)81.2#11
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian69.9#18
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian61.3#23
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian39.4#33
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian75.1#10
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian64.3#22
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German63.1#40
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)51#44
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 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)54#17
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)77.1#13
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)73.9#5
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)70.8#7
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)26.4#19
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)82.8#4
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English0.8#40
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)63.2#41
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)82.1#15

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 Text Embedding 3 Large?›

On RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages), Harrier OSS v1 0.6B scores 51 vs 52.6 — lower.

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?›

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