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Multilingual E5 Base

Feb 2024
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49MTEB English v2
Feb 2024released
768Dimensions
1K tokensMax input
en, Esperanto, es +90Languages

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1Seed1.6 Embedding 121591.52Qwen 3 Embedding 8B88.63Arabic English Sts Matryoshka88.54Harrier OSS v1 27B88.55Qwen 3 Embedding 4B86.7
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50Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 082671.351Multilingual E5 Base71.252SFR Embedding Mistral71

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Embeddings & Retrieval#113 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+14%—$0.002Languages: not verifiedOpenQwen 3 Embedding 8Bunstated+24%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+14%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterBge M3unstatedOpen+10%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+10%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 0.3 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
LicenceMITfree for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English48.9#113
BEIR · Mean over task types · English48.9#113
BEIR · Retrieval · English48.9#113
BEIR-NL · Mean over tasks · Dutch42.4#8
BEIR-NL · Mean over task types · Dutch42.4#8
BEIR-NL · Retrieval · Dutch42.4#8
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese56.2#27
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese56.5#27
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese61.6#65
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese43.7#62
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese57#60
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese45.6#59
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese63.2#61
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese67.8#29
ChemTEB · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)68.5#35
ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)49.5#26
ChemTEB · Classification · English79.1#41
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English73.8#14
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)56#25
ChemTEB · Clustering · English38.6#29
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0.2#28
MTEB Persian v2 · Mean over tasks · Persian62.6#17
MTEB Persian v2 · Mean over task types · Persian65.9#19
MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian78.3#14
MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian56.5#35
MTEB Persian v2 · Classification · Persian63.6#23
MTEB Persian v2 · Retrieval · Persian53.9#13
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian72.1#10
MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian54.6#23
MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian82#19
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese47.3#47
JMTEB v2 · Classification · Japanese61#23
JMTEB v2 · Retrieval · Japanese65.2#24
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese80.4#35
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English40.5#69
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English40.5#69
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English40.5#69
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German53#22
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German52.8#19
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German32.4#35
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German48.8#24
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German65.3#40
MTEB German v1 · STS · German68.6#32
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German51.7#60
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German50.3#29
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages)57.2#21
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (29 languages)50.8#21
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)50.2#41
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)73.7#21
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)84.3#59
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)57.9#31
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)38.2#75
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.7#151
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)87.4#37
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)53.9#77
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)14.9#64
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)56.8#21
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)57.2#22
MTEB French v1 · STS · French77.6#26
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)49.9#36
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French75.6#39
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French45.3#30
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French63.7#43
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French33#1
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French55.3#138
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)64.6#20
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)62.6#22
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)63.8#20
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)77.8#28
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)74.2#14
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)83.8#52
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi72.8#52
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)41.1#51
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)24.6#80
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean78.6#34
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean53.5#36
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean58.3#30
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch52.4#48
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch59.7#44
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch58.7#47
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch27.8#62
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch55.8#43
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch76.1#47
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch34.5#47
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch76.7#40
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch88.5#53
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish82.2#38
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish59#35
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish65.1#41
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over tasks · Portuguese67.5#9
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over task types · Portuguese61.8#8
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese56.4#19
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Retrieval · Portuguese72.5#8
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19#112
MTEB Portuguese v1 · STS · Portuguese76.9#13
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Reranking · Portuguese84.1#8
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)48.5#53
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)48.5#53
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)48.5#53
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English32.4#172
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese66.3#84
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2.7#151
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2.7#151
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2.7#151
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)62.5#17
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)63.7#17
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish62.3#76
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)78.3#21
MTEB Spanish v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)46.5#18
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish46.6#26
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish60.2#33
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish88.2#13
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai40.5#69
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai71.2#51
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)40.2#48
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)63.1#30
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)61.4#130
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over tasks · Vietnamese49.4#16
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over task types · Vietnamese61.1#14
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Classification · Vietnamese61.4#20
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · STS · Vietnamese79.5#13
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Retrieval · Vietnamese34.5#16
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Clustering · Vietnamese45.7#16
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Reranking · Vietnamese62.5#19
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Pair Classification · Vietnamese82.8#13
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian58.4#32
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian57.3#31
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian58.3#55
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian70.2#48
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian66.2#26
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian50.3#66
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian55#91
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian67.4#23
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian33.6#52
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)39.6#72
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German47.9#65
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)39#84
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)57#44
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)49.8#46
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)58.2#50
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)41.8#70
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)71.4#46
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)77.2#64
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)52.7#76
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)69.5#40
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.7#151
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)20#61
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)60.2#67

FAQ

How much does Multilingual E5 Base cost?›

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

Is Multilingual E5 Base free to use?›

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

How good is Multilingual E5 Base, and what is it best at?›

#113 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Multilingual E5 Base better than Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 0826?›

On MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai, Multilingual E5 Base scores 71.2 vs 71.3 — about the same.

When was Multilingual E5 Base released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-02-08. It is the current version in its line.

Is Multilingual E5 Base open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).

Can I run Multilingual E5 Base locally?›

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

What is Multilingual E5 Base?›

Multilingual E5 Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from intfloat, released Feb 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Multilingual E5 Base?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (open weights).