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LaBSE

Nov 2019
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18.1MTEB English v2
Nov 2019released
0K tokensMax input
en, Esperanto, Estonian +97Languages

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1Llama Embed Nemotron 8B83.92Linq Embed Mistral82.93BidirLM 1B Embedding82.44Qwen 3 Embedding 8B82.45Arabic English Sts Matryoshka82.2
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44F2LLM v2 1.7B7645LaBSE7646E5 Small Trm Nl76

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Embeddings & Retrieval#183 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+3%—$0.002Languages: not verifiedOpenLlama Embed Nemotron 8B+10%——Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+8%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+7%—$0.01Languages: loses Igbo, Luxembourgish, Maltese +9iBetterMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen+6%—$0.01Languages: loses Igbo, Luxembourgish, Maltese +9

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
LicenceApache-2.0free for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English19#181
BEIR · Mean over task types · English19#181
BEIR · Retrieval · English19#181
BEIR-NL · Mean over tasks · Dutch19.5#15
BEIR-NL · Mean over task types · Dutch19.5#15
BEIR-NL · Retrieval · Dutch19.5#15
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese21.8#82
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese39.3#73
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese67#32
MTEB Persian v2 · Mean over tasks · Persian53.2#26
MTEB Persian v2 · Mean over task types · Persian58.1#26
MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian76.4#21
MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian56.6#34
MTEB Persian v2 · Classification · Persian64.8#21
MTEB Persian v2 · Retrieval · Persian29.9#27
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian55.7#55
MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian47.5#29
MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian76#32
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese39.8#65
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese76.6#64
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English21.9#146
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English21.9#146
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English21.9#146
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German46.5#32
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German43.9#36
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German28.3#55
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German35.5#67
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German63.5#49
MTEB German v1 · STS · German61#50
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German50.8#69
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German24.4#85
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages)51.8#27
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (29 languages)47.3#27
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)34.4#104
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)65.7#50
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)88.8#31
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)55.1#44
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)34.3#120
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-3#162
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)85.2#50
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)48.7#122
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)16.3#56
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)49.6#46
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)50.6#54
MTEB French v1 · STS · French74.4#37
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)30.9#96
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French61.5#99
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French39.1#71
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French63.6#45
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.2#74
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French54.9#146
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)61.7#27
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)59.6#26
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)61.7#32
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)64.3#49
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)74.1#15
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)79#78
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi64.6#79
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)52.8#23
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)21.1#88
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean74.9#39
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean30.4#60
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean51.4#48
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch44.2#65
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch53.9#65
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch55.2#62
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch25.7#70
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch35.5#89
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch69.9#67
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch34.4#49
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch76#45
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch80.5#109
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish79.3#54
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish57.3#41
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish63.6#45
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese56.7#17
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Retrieval · Portuguese47.9#20
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese20.8#59
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)32.3#133
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)32.3#133
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)32.3#133
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English31.5#180
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese40.2#107
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-3#162
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-3#162
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-3#162
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)51.5#23
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)52.1#23
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish59.3#115
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)71.7#39
MTEB Spanish v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)27.9#28
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish42.7#58
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish28.4#99
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish82.7#19
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai20.3#107
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai63.1#89
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)48.5#36
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)50.3#35
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)34.9#78
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)54.9#63
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)42.2#46
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)69.1#54
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over tasks · Vietnamese38.5#21
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over task types · Vietnamese53#21
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Classification · Vietnamese58.7#23
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · STS · Vietnamese72#24
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Retrieval · Vietnamese17.8#24
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Clustering · Vietnamese34.6#25
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Reranking · Vietnamese58.3#24
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Pair Classification · Vietnamese76.8#22
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian49.1#48
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian46.9#48
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian54.6#70
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian65.5#63
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian42#70
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian47.7#74
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian55.7#82
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian31.5#49
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian31.4#68
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English27#87
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)13.1#156
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German16.6#134
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)13.8#87
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)26.2#170
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)52.1#52
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)45.6#53
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)54.6#67
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)38.1#118
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)65.3#67
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)76#77
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)33.2#135
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)76.3#14
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-3#162
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)20.1#58
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)50.2#87

FAQ

How much does LaBSE cost?›

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

Is LaBSE free to use?›

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

How good is LaBSE, and what is it best at?›

#183 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is LaBSE better than F2LLM v2 1.7B?›

On MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch, LaBSE scores 76 vs 76 — about the same.

When was LaBSE released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2019-11-01. It is the current version in its line.

Is LaBSE open source?›

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

Can I run LaBSE locally?›

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

What is LaBSE?›

LaBSE is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from sentence-transformers, released Nov 2019.

What are the best alternatives to LaBSE?›

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