Ogma Small measured on 4 of 194 Embeddings benchmarks4
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51.6MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1
Apr 2026released
1K tokensMax input
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
sBetterText2vec Base ChineseOpen+22%—$0.005Max input: 1K tokens → 0K tokens+1KOpenQZhou Embedding Zh+85%——Languages: not verified+1
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+63%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+48%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+30%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.3 GBModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
sText2vec Base ChineseOpen+22%—$0.005Max input: 1K tokens → 0K tokens+1Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+63%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+48%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+30%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.3 GBiMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen+25%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.3 GBModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
KQZhou Embedding ZhOpen+85%——Languages: not verified+1KQZhou EmbeddingunstatedOpen+84%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 4.2 GB
Youtu EmbeddingOpen+67%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 1.6 GBqZhinao ChineseModernBert EmbeddingOpen+67%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GBrRitrieve Zh v1Open+67%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.2 GBRun 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
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How much does Ogma Small cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
Is Ogma Small free to use?›
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
How good is Ogma Small, and what is it best at?›
#85 of 85 in Embeddings.
Is Ogma Small better than Pubmedbert Base Embeddings 8M?›
On MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese, Ogma Small scores 51.6 vs 51.6 — about the same.
When was Ogma Small released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2026-04-23. It is the current version in its line.
Is Ogma Small open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (cc-by-nc-4.0 licence).
Can I run Ogma Small locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is Ogma Small?›
Ogma Small is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from axiotic, released Apr 2026.
What are the best alternatives to Ogma Small?›
Text2vec Base Chinese (better), QZhou Embedding Zh (open weights).