Multilingual E5 Large Instruct

Name: Multilingual E5 Large Instruct
Brand: intfloat
Price: 0.01 USD
Availability: InStock

Feb 2024

iMultilingual E5 Large Instruct

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$0.01per 1M tokens

53.5MTEB English v2

Feb 2024released

1,024Dimensions

1K tokensMax input

en, Esperanto, es +90Languages

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano81.8 2Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small81.7 3Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small81.7 4Qwen 3 Embedding 8B81.6 5Qwen 3 Embedding 4B81.2

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7Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6B77.6 8Multilingual E5 Large Instruct77.4 9Harrier OSS v1 0.6B77.4

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Embeddings & Retrieval#75 of 200

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BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+5%same$0.01Languages: not verified+1

OpenJina Embeddings v5 Text Smallunstated+6%+400%$0.05Languages: not verified+1 iCheaperE5 Base v2unstatedOpen-12%-50%$0.005Languages: loses Esperanto, es, Estonian +89

BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+5%+100%$0.02Languages: not verified+1

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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 · English52.7#72

BEIR · Mean over task types · English52.7#72

BEIR · Retrieval · English52.7#72

BEIR-NL · Mean over tasks · Dutch44.4#6

BEIR-NL · Mean over task types · Dutch44.4#6

BEIR-NL · Retrieval · Dutch44.4#6

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese60.3#26

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese60.7#26

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese47.9#56

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese53.2#46

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese60.7#56

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese64.9#61

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese70.8#27

MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese66.8#55

ChemTEB · Retrieval · English74.4#14

ChemTEB · Clustering · English33.4#40

ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0.2#33

ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)59.6#20

MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian72.4#9

MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian85.5#6

MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian68.2#6

MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian82#3

MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian55.4#27

JMTEB v2 · Classification · Japanese67#17

JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese54.4#15

JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese82.9#24

LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English41.8#64

LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English41.8#64

LongEmbed · Retrieval · English41.8#64

MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German57.1#15

MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German55.8#15

MTEB German v1 · Classification · German69.5#28

MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German53.1#48

MTEB German v1 · STS · German73.7#12

MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German40.2#10

MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German51.9#21

MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German46.6#40

MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages)62.2#12

MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (29 languages)55.3#12

MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)63.2#12

MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.4#69

MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)17.3#45

MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)77.4#8

MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)89.9#22

MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)46.9#31

MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)54.8#37

MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)58.4#47

MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)90.4#15

MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)64.6#12

MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)63.2#12

MTEB French v1 · STS · French83#10

MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)60.5#17

MTEB French v1 · Classification · French69.4#25

MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French56.1#9

MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French82.3#24

MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French59.4#76

MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French31.7#14

MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)70.2#8

MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)71.6#7

MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)67#13

MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)80.4#1

MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)53.7#16

MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)87.5#16

MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)84.9#12

MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi76.3#32

MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)51.7#15

MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean70.3#10

MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean85.2#11

MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean62.2#15

MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean65.4#13

MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean52.3#44

MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch58.4#20

MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch65.5#15

MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch55.1#46

MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch64.7#21

MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch38.6#20

MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch82.3#15

MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch45.4#14

MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch91.1#22

MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch81.5#8

MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over tasks · Polish69.1#13

MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over task types · Polish68.4#10

MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish67#21

MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish49#6

MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish70.3#11

MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish87.2#9

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over tasks · Portuguese72.2#2

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over task types · Portuguese65.7#3

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Reranking · Portuguese85.9#4

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese64.6#15

MTEB Portuguese v1 · STS · Portuguese82.3#10

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese20.1#76

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Retrieval · Portuguese75.8#6

MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)54.9#41

MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)54.9#41

MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)54.9#41

MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)58.3#26

MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)58.3#29

MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)60.8#28

MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English37.9#64

MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese76#71

FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-0.4#69

FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-0.4#69

FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-0.4#69

MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)65.8#13

MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)65.8#16

MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)80.1#9

MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish48.7#21

MTEB Spanish v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)51.7#13

MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish68.8#44

MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish53.1#46

MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish92.4#9

MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)62.5#14

MTEB Thai v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)62.3#14

MTEB Thai v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)63.3#13

MTEB Thai v1 · Classification · Thai66.3#15

MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai78.2#27

MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai56#24

MTEB Thai v1 · Reranking · Thai47.9#26

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)61.6#19

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)63#15

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)63.9#24

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)63.9#37

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)49.8#13

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)74.5#21

VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Reranking · Vietnamese66.4#8

VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Retrieval · Vietnamese40.9#7

VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Clustering · Vietnamese51.5#8

VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · STS · Vietnamese82.9#4

VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Classification · Vietnamese66.4#14

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian62.4#22

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian60.5#22

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian66.3#27

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian63.1#18

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian64.3#35

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian41.1#26

MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian76.5#4

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian48.4#42

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian63.9#24

RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English58.6#48

RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)40.6#72

RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German51.2#66

RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)49#51

RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)45.6#69

MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)63.2#25

MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)55.1#24

MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)50.7#34

MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)76.8#15

MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)64.9#26

MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)57.1#58

MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)23#40

MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)80.1#9

MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.4#69

MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)62.6#47

MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)80.8#28

FAQ

How much does Multilingual E5 Large Instruct cost?›

$0.01 per 1M tokens.

Is Multilingual E5 Large Instruct free to use?›

There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.01 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

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

#75 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Multilingual E5 Large Instruct better than Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6B?›

On MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages), Multilingual E5 Large Instruct scores 77.4 vs 77.6 — about the same. It is 0% more expensive.

How can I use Multilingual E5 Large Instruct?›

Through the intfloat API.

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

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

Is Multilingual E5 Large Instruct open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).

Can I run Multilingual E5 Large Instruct locally?›

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

What is Multilingual E5 Large Instruct?›

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

What are the best alternatives to Multilingual E5 Large Instruct?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (cheaper), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small (open weights).