Nb Sbert Base measured on 6 of 261 Embeddings benchmarks6
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72MTEB Scandinavian v1
Nov 2022released
768Dimensions
0K tokensMax input
NorwegianLanguages
Alternatives?
ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+18%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1
OpenJina Embeddings v5 Text Smallunstated+19%—$0.05Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+3%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBBetterJina Embeddings v5 Text NanounstatedOpen+19%—$0.02Languages: not verifiedBetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+14%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+18%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+3%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBJina Embeddings v5 Text NanounstatedOpen+19%—$0.02Languages: not verifiedQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+14%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1iE5 Mistral 7B InstructunstatedOpen+4%—$0.022Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.3 GBModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
Jina Embeddings v5 Text SmallunstatedOpen+19%—$0.05Languages: not verified+1Jina Embeddings v5 Text NanounstatedOpen+19%—$0.02Languages: not verifiedOOcten Embedding 8BOpen+18%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.5 GBQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+18%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1
KaLM Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511Open+15%——Languages: not verified+1Run it yourself
estimateFits 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
LicenceApache-2.0free for commercial use
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How much does Nb Sbert Base cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: price not verified.
How good is Nb Sbert Base, and what is it best at?›
#28 of 205 in Embeddings.
Is Nb Sbert Base better than F2LLM v2 4B?›
On MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages), Nb Sbert Base scores 72 vs 72.2 — about the same.
When was Nb Sbert Base released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2022-11-23. It is the current version in its line.
Is Nb Sbert Base open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
Can I run Nb Sbert Base locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is Nb Sbert Base?›
Nb Sbert Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from NbAiLab, released Nov 2022.
What are the best alternatives to Nb Sbert Base?›
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small (open weights).