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Multilingual E5 Large Instruct

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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1EmbeddingGemma 300M732Multilingual E5 Large Instruct72.23Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6B71.64E5 Large Matryoshka Sts Pt70.45Gte Multilingual Base69.7

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Embeddings & Retrieval#75 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
CheaperEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpensame-80%$0.002Languages: not verifiedOpenQwen 3 Embedding 0.6Bunstatedsamesame$0.01Languages: not verified+1iOpenE5 Large Matryoshka Sts Pt-2%——Languages: loses en, Esperanto, es +89OpenGte Multilingual Baseunstated-3%——Languages: loses Esperanto, Amharic, Assamese +19iOpenMultilingual E5 Largeunstated-4%same$0.01

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 · 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 EmbeddingGemma 300M?›

On MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over tasks · Portuguese, Multilingual E5 Large Instruct scores 72.2 vs 73 — about the same. It is 400% 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).