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HeAR S1.1

Mar 2026
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41.1MAEB v1 audio-only
Mar 2026released
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Ranking?

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1Larger Clap Music And Speech96.92MuQ MuLan Large96.33Larger Clap General95.64Ast Finetuned Audioset 10 10 0.459394.65Ebind Full93.8
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8E5 Omni 7B929HeAR S1.19010OmniEmbed v0.189.9

Strong at

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Embeddings & Retrieval#3 of 13

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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
Licencehttps://developers.google.com/health-ai-developer-foundations/termscommercial use with conditions

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MAEB v1 · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)40.9#19
MAEB v1 · Audio Pair Classification · English54.4#15
MAEB v1 · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content59.8#27
MAEB v1 · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)6#14
MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over tasks · multilingual (102 languages)41.1#21
MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over task types · multilingual (102 languages)50.2#21
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)40.9#19
MAEB v1 audio-only · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (4 languages)90#9
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)6#14
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Pair Classification · English54.4#15
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content59.8#27

FAQ

How much does HeAR S1.1 cost?›

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

Is HeAR S1.1 free to use?›

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

How good is HeAR S1.1, and what is it best at?›

#3 of 13 in Audio. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.

Is HeAR S1.1 better than E5 Omni 7B?›

On MAEB v1 audio-only · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (4 languages), HeAR S1.1 scores 90 vs 92 — lower.

When was HeAR S1.1 released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-03-26. It is the current version in its line.

Is HeAR S1.1 open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (https://developers.google.com/health-ai-developer-foundations/terms licence).

Can I run HeAR S1.1 locally?›

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

What is HeAR S1.1?›

HeAR S1.1 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from matthewagi, released Mar 2026.

What are the best alternatives to HeAR S1.1?›

Ast Finetuned Audioset 10 10 0.4593 (better).