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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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1Gemini Embedding 2 Preview98.52Harrier OSS v1 27B93.63Octen Embedding 8B93.14Qwen 3 Embedding 8B935KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 251192.8
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59Multilingual E5 Base84.360Multilingual E5 Small84.261EmbeddingGemma 284.2

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Embeddings & Retrieval#124 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+11%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1OOpenOcten Embedding 8B+11%——Languages: loses Esperanto, es, Estonian +88+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+7%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBiBetterMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen+5%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBBetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+3%—$0.01Languages: 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 · English46.7#123
BEIR · Mean over task types · English46.7#123
BEIR · Retrieval · English46.7#123
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#28
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese55.7#28
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese59.9#66
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese42.3#64
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese56.1#62
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese45.7#58
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese62.8#63
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese67.5#31
ChemTEB · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)68.1#39
ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)48.4#34
ChemTEB · Classification · English79.1#40
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English76.7#8
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)55.4#30
ChemTEB · Clustering · English30.7#39
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0.2#22
MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian76.9#20
MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian57.5#31
MTEB Persian v2 · Classification · Persian61.1#31
MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian51#27
MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian81#25
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese80.2#40
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#26
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German51.6#24
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German31.6#38
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German48.2#27
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German61.8#55
MTEB German v1 · STS · German69.2#26
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German50.7#70
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German48.2#37
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)84.2#60
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.4#143
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)87.2#38
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)13.5#81
MTEB French v1 · STS · French78.2#22
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)44.5#44
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French72.8#50
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French41.7#51
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French31.1#30
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)76.8#34
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)73.4#17
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi73.3#47
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)45.9#39
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)64.3#20
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)61.8#20
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean76.5#37
MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)66.1#25
MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean58.5#20
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean54.6#34
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean57.2#36
MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean58.1#20
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch50.8#53
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch58.7#46
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch56.6#57
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch27.8#61
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch53.1#53
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch75.5#51
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch34.4#50
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch76.5#41
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch87.2#69
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over tasks · Polish59.5#10
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over task types · Polish59.3#9
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish80.8#45
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish54.5#49
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish65.9#35
MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish36.2#10
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over tasks · Portuguese66.5#11
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over task types · Portuguese60.8#11
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese56.6#18
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Retrieval · Portuguese68.4#10
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19#115
MTEB Portuguese v1 · STS · Portuguese76.9#12
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Reranking · Portuguese83.3#9
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)47.4#55
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)47.4#55
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)47.4#55
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)53.4#35
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)51.3#39
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)56.8#33
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English33.1#163
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese64#87
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2.4#143
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2.4#143
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2.4#143
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)61.4#20
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)62.9#20
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish63.2#72
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)77.2#26
MTEB Spanish v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)44.3#20
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish45.6#34
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish60.5#31
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish86.6#16
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai41.3#67
MTEB Thai v1 · Classification · Thai61.4#26
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai68.4#67
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)56.1#27
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)57.1#28
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)38.4#56
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)59#42
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)62.3#31
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 · Classification · Vietnamese58.7#22
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · STS · Vietnamese77.6#17
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Retrieval · Vietnamese34.1#17
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Clustering · Vietnamese43.2#20
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Reranking · Vietnamese60.7#22
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Pair Classification · Vietnamese81.6#17
CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages)51.3#50
CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages)51.3#50
CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages)51.3#50
CoREB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)32#21
CoREB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)32#21
CoREB v1 · Reranking · multilingual (6 languages)37.8#21
CoREB v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (6 languages)26.3#21
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages)53.5#44
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages)53.5#44
MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages)53.5#44
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#65
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian71.7#37
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian65.3#30
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian51.2#63
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian57.5#65
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian66.2#25
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian32.4#61
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#68
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)32.8#85
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German47.8#66
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)42.4#62
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)36.5#93
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)69.4#42
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.4#143
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)19#69

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 Multilingual E5 Base?›

On MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages), Multilingual E5 Small scores 84.2 vs 84.3 — about the same.

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?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Octen Embedding 8B (open weights).