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Multilingual E5 Small

Feb 2024
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46.4MTEB English v2
Feb 2024released
384Dimensions
1K tokensMax input
en, Esperanto, es +90Languages

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1Papr Embed Code 1 4B80.12F2LLM v2 14B79.93Qwen 3 Embedding 8B79.94C2LLM 7B79.65F2LLM v2 8B79.6
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53Code Embed v253.454Multilingual E5 Small51.355Granite Embedding 125M English50.3

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Embeddings & Retrieval#124 of 200

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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 · English46.7#125
BEIR · Mean over task types · English46.7#125
BEIR · Retrieval · English46.7#125
BEIR-NL · Mean over tasks · Dutch41.1#9
BEIR-NL · Mean over task types · Dutch41.1#9
BEIR-NL · Retrieval · Dutch41.1#9
BRIGHT · Mean over tasks · English7.7#26
BRIGHT · Mean over task types · English7.7#26
BRIGHT · Retrieval · English7.7#26
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese55.3#32
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese55.7#32
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese42.3#70
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese45.7#64
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese56.1#62
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese59.9#69
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese67.5#33
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese62.8#69
ChemTEB · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)68.1#39
ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)48.4#34
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English76.7#8
ChemTEB · Clustering · English30.7#43
ChemTEB · Classification · English79.1#40
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0.2#25
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)55.4#34
MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian81#29
MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian57.5#37
MTEB Persian v2 · Classification · Persian61.1#31
MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian76.9#26
MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian51#33
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese80.2#46
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English38.8#83
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English38.8#83
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English38.8#83
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German51.5#30
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German51.6#28
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German61.8#58
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German50.7#77
MTEB German v1 · STS · German69.2#31
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German31.6#41
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German48.2#32
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German48.2#37
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.4#144
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)13.5#81
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)87.2#50
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)84.2#60
MTEB French v1 · STS · French78.2#26
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)44.5#49
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French41.7#51
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French72.8#58
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French31.1#31
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)73.4#19
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)45.9#39
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)76.8#40
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi73.3#47
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)64.3#21
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)61.8#21
MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)66.1#30
MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean58.1#30
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean76.5#43
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean57.2#39
MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean58.5#30
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean54.6#36
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch50.8#53
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch58.7#46
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch53.1#53
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch56.6#57
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch34.4#50
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch75.5#51
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch27.8#62
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch87.2#69
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch76.5#42
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over tasks · Polish59.5#33
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over task types · Polish59.3#32
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish54.5#55
MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish36.2#40
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish65.9#40
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish80.8#53
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over tasks · Portuguese66.5#11
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over task types · Portuguese60.8#11
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Reranking · Portuguese83.3#14
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese56.6#35
MTEB Portuguese v1 · STS · Portuguese76.9#24
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19#116
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Retrieval · Portuguese68.4#10
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)47.4#59
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)47.4#59
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)47.4#59
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)53.4#38
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)51.3#42
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)56.8#36
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English33.1#163
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese64#92
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2.4#144
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2.4#144
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2.4#144
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)61.4#21
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)62.9#21
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)77.2#30
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish45.6#34
MTEB Spanish v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)44.3#21
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish63.2#72
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish60.5#31
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish86.6#29
MTEB Thai v1 · Classification · Thai61.4#29
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai68.4#67
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai41.3#67
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)56.1#38
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)57.1#38
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)59#47
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)62.3#42
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)38.4#63
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)68.5#59
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over tasks · Vietnamese48#18
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over task types · Vietnamese59.3#19
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Reranking · Vietnamese60.7#23
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Pair Classification · Vietnamese81.6#18
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Retrieval · Vietnamese34.1#17
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Clustering · Vietnamese43.2#21
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · STS · Vietnamese77.6#18
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Classification · Vietnamese58.7#22
CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages)51.3#54
CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages)51.3#54
CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages)51.3#54
CoREB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)32#22
CoREB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)32#22
CoREB v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (6 languages)26.3#22
CoREB v1 · Reranking · multilingual (6 languages)37.8#22
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages)53.5#48
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages)53.5#48
MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages)53.5#48
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian57.3#35
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian57.1#32
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian55.2#68
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian51.2#68
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian65.3#30
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian32.4#66
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian71.7#39
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian66.2#25
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian57.5#65
RTEB Code beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)39.3#7
RTEB English beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (5 languages)41.3#7
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English51#73
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)32.8#87
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German47.8#73
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)42.4#64
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)36.5#100
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)19#69
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)69.4#42
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.4#144

FAQ

How much does Multilingual E5 Small cost?›

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

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

#124 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Multilingual E5 Small better than Code Embed v2?›

On CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages), Multilingual E5 Small scores 51.3 vs 53.4 — lower.

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

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

Is Multilingual E5 Small open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).

Can I run Multilingual E5 Small locally?›

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

What is Multilingual E5 Small?›

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

What are the best alternatives to Multilingual E5 Small?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Papr Embed Code 1 4B (open weights).