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Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe

Feb 2025
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54.8MTEB English v2
Feb 2025released
1K tokensMax input
en, es, Esperanto +87Languages

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1Voyage 4 Large742Nemotron 3 Embed 8B BF1671.23Octen Embedding 4B68.44Voyage 468.35Voyage 3 Large68.2
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45Multilingual E5 Large54.246Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe52.847Text Embedding 3 Small52.3

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Embeddings & Retrieval#62 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+27%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1OpenNemotron 3 Embed 8B BF16+35%——Languages: loses Esperanto, Estonian, Javanese +56+1BetterBge M3unstatedOpen+4%—$0.01Languages: not verifiedBetterNemotron 3 Embed 1B BF16Open+20%—$0.015Languages: loses Esperanto, Estonian, Javanese +56+1VBetterVoyage 4 Lite+17%—$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

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian70.3#22
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German44.7#45
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-3.9#194
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)14.4#69
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)40.8#60
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)55.6#68
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)83.3#68
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French57.4#103
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)36.4#58
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)85.2#40
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi65.7#76
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)34.5#50
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)67.6#14
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)64.2#17
MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)70.2#24
MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean63.9#18
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean79.5#36
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean55.7#43
MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean59.2#27
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean56.6#26
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch88.5#54
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.5#100
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English36#97
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-3.9#194
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-3.9#194
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-3.9#194
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish60.1#102
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish57.3#41
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai65.5#81
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai46.2#47
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)67.1#69
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian62.3#45
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian55.5#86
RTEB Code beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)40.2#6
RTEB English beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (5 languages)44.7#6
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English52.3#71
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)47.7#53
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German51.7#65
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)52.8#46
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)43.5#79
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)57.6#42
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)49.6#47
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)44.5#54
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)71#49
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)60.4#38
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)57.2#57
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)19.6#64
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)60.7#67
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-3.9#194
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)60.3#65
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)76.3#71

FAQ

How much does Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe cost?›

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

Is Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe free to use?›

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

How good is Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe, and what is it best at?›

#62 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe better than Multilingual E5 Large?›

On RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages), Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe scores 52.8 vs 54.2 — lower.

When was Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2025-02-07. It is the current version in its line.

Is Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe open source?›

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

Can I run Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe locally?›

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

What is Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe?›

Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from nomic-ai, released Feb 2025.

What are the best alternatives to Nomic Embed Text v2 Moe?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Nemotron 3 Embed 8B BF16 (open weights).