LateOn Code Edge measured on 6 of 261 Embeddings benchmarks6
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65CoIR
Feb 2026released
2K tokensMax input
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+4%—$0.002Languages: not verified+1
OpenQwen 3 Embedding 8Bunstated+23%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1
Betterpplx Embed v1 0.6BOpen+15%—$0.004Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+15%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+22%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
EmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+4%—$0.002Languages: not verified+1pplx Embed v1 0.6BOpen+15%—$0.004Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+23%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+15%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+22%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+23%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1cC2LLM 7BOpen+23%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 4.6 GBcF2LLM v2 8BunstatedOpen+23%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 4.5 GBcF2LLM v2 4BunstatedOpen+22%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 2.4 GBQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+22%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
lLateOn CodeOpen+13%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GBlmLateOnOpen+10%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.2 GBlmDenseOnOpen+7%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.2 GBlLateOn Code PretrainOpen-7%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GBlLateOn Code Edge PretrainOpen-17%——lDenseOnOpenn/a——Max input: 2K tokens → 1K tokens+1lDenseOn UnsupervisedOpenn/a——Max input: 2K tokens → 1K tokens+1lLateOnOpenn/a——Max input: 2K tokens → 0K tokens+1All lightonai models →Run it yourself
estimateFits 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
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How much does LateOn Code Edge cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
Is LateOn Code Edge free to use?›
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
How good is LateOn Code Edge, and what is it best at?›
#37 of 58 in Embeddings.
Is LateOn Code Edge better than Inf Retriever v1 1.5B?›
On CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages), LateOn Code Edge scores 65 vs 66.4 — lower.
When was LateOn Code Edge released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2026-02-12. It is the current version in its line.
Is LateOn Code Edge open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
Can I run LateOn Code Edge locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is LateOn Code Edge?›
LateOn Code Edge is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from lightonai, released Feb 2026.
What are the best alternatives to LateOn Code Edge?›
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (open weights).