HeAR S1.1

Name: HeAR S1.1
Brand: matthewagi

Mar 2026

mHeAR S1.1

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41.1MAEB v1 audio-only

Mar 2026released

384Dimensions

Ranking?

Full ranking →

1Ebind Full26 2Clap Htsat Fused22.7 3Msclap 202219.9 4Msclap 202315.2 5Qwen 2 Audio 7B12.7

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13Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small6.1 14HeAR S1.16 15Wav2clip6

Strong at

Embeddings & Retrieval#3 of 13

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes

OpenVggish+30%——sOpenCnn14 Esc50+23%——MOpenAst Finetuned Audioset 10 10 0.4593same——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GB

OpenEncodec 24khzsame——aOpenSew D Mid 400K Ft Ls100h-65%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GB

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

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

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval

MAEB v1 · Audio Pair Classification · English54.4#15

MAEB v1 · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)6#14

MAEB v1 · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)40.9#19

MAEB v1 · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content59.8#27

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 Pair Classification · English54.4#15

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content59.8#27

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)6#14

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

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 Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small?›

On MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages), HeAR S1.1 scores 6 vs 6.1 — about the same.

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?›

Vggish (open weights).