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Nomic Embed Text v1

Jan 2024
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50.7MTEB English v2
Jan 2024released
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8K tokensMax input
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Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1Uibk Embedding v191.52GTE ModernColBERT v190.63UltraBERT Embed 150M79.34Voyage Multilingual 279.25Voyage Law 278.8
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44Text Embedding 3 Large52.445Nomic Embed Text v147.746Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct47.2

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Embeddings & Retrieval#101 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterBge M3unstatedOpen+25%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1DOpenUibk Embedding v1unstated+92%——Max input: 8K tokens → 0K tokensVBetterVoyage 3 Liteunstated+50%—$0.02Languages: not verifiedBetterJina Embeddings v5 Text NanounstatedOpen+33%—$0.02Languages: not verifiedBetterText Embedding 3 Smallunstated+12%—$0.02Languages: not verified

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
LicenceApache-2.0free for commercial use

History

2 versions
3035404550Release dateLongEmbed · Retrievalv1v1.5
3035404550Release dateLongEmbed · Retrievalv1v1.5

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English52.9#68
BEIR · Mean over task types · English52.9#68
BEIR · Retrieval · English52.9#68
ChemTEB · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)70.6#21
ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)51.5#17
ChemTEB · Classification · English81.8#22
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English73#19
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)54.9#35
ChemTEB · Clustering · English47.8#17
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0.2#20
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian42.2#73
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese23.1#81
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese65.5#80
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English47.7#45
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English47.7#45
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English47.7#45
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German25.6#74
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German48.6#104
MTEB German v1 · STS · German52.7#67
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German48.7#144
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German21.9#99
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)40.7#75
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)40.7#113
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)51.7#63
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)36.7#89
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-3.2#172
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)82.8#93
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)51.6#91
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)14.3#71
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)49#55
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)50.7#53
MTEB French v1 · STS · French71.5#55
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)33#90
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French66.9#79
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French42.9#38
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French54.1#79
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French31.1#33
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French55.2#141
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)36.2#66
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)27.7#59
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)46.1#67
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)17.8#83
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)5.6#84
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)55.9#112
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi53.9#124
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)10.8#99
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)3.6#133
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean9.8#107
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean21.9#98
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch79.9#118
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish64.6#98
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish42.1#84
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish57.2#64
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.8#86
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)41.8#71
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)41.8#71
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)41.8#71
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)40.7#61
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)33.9#63
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)43.9#62
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English35.7#112
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese22.1#123
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-3.2#172
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-3.2#172
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-3.2#172
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish57.3#135
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish46.1#31
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish32.4#92
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai3.5#161
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai51.1#167
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)34#85
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)48.8#92
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)70.8#41
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian29#67
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian29.4#68
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian32.2#103
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian46.9#85
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian24.4#103
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian17.8#111
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian46.3#177
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian11.6#62
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian26.4#107
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)22.6#120
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German26#109
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)33.5#114
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)49.4#89
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)40.8#85
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)71.7#129
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)37#115
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)28.4#103
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-3.2#172
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)17.8#83
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)46#106

FAQ

How much does Nomic Embed Text v1 cost?›

There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.

Is Nomic Embed Text v1 free to use?›

There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is Nomic Embed Text v1, and what is it best at?›

#101 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Nomic Embed Text v1 better than Text Embedding 3 Large?›

On LongEmbed · Retrieval · English, Nomic Embed Text v1 scores 47.7 vs 52.4 — lower.

When was Nomic Embed Text v1 released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-01-31. It is the current version in its line.

Is Nomic Embed Text v1 open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).

Can I run Nomic Embed Text v1 locally?›

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

What is Nomic Embed Text v1?›

Nomic Embed Text v1 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from nomic-ai, released Jan 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Nomic Embed Text v1?›

Bge M3 (better), Uibk Embedding v1 (open weights).