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Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2

Nov 2019
sParaphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2
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35.9MTEB English v2
Nov 2019released
384Dimensions
0K tokensMax input
en, es, Estonian +45Languages

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1Seed1.6 Embedding 121586.42Qwen 3 Embedding 8B84.43Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct83.84Gte Qwen1.5 7B Instruct83.55Octen Embedding 8B82
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48BidirLM 1B Embedding68.249Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v26850Cohere Embed Multilingual v3.068

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Embeddings & Retrieval#155 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+7%—$0.002Languages: not verified+1OpenQwen 3 Embedding 8Bunstated+24%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+11%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1BetterQwen 3 Embedding 4BunstatedOpen+18%—$0.02Languages: not verified+1BetterJina Embeddings v5 Text NanounstatedOpen+9%—$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
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English33.4#162
BEIR · Mean over task types · English33.4#162
BEIR · Retrieval · English33.4#162
BEIR-NL · Mean over tasks · Dutch25.8#12
BEIR-NL · Mean over task types · Dutch25.8#12
BEIR-NL · Retrieval · Dutch25.8#12
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese24.5#80
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese44.3#71
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese63.1#36
MTEB Persian v2 · Mean over tasks · Persian51.3#27
MTEB Persian v2 · Mean over task types · Persian55.6#27
MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian75#24
MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian58.1#28
MTEB Persian v2 · Classification · Persian59.2#33
MTEB Persian v2 · Retrieval · Persian31#26
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian55.8#54
MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian31.9#34
MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian78#31
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese41.5#62
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese73.5#69
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English20.9#149
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English20.9#149
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English20.9#149
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German45.5#35
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German45.2#33
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German26.5#67
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German37.5#56
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German57.6#64
MTEB German v1 · STS · German62.7#46
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German50.5#73
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German36.5#58
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (29 languages)51.7#28
MTEB Europe v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (29 languages)46.4#28
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)37.6#89
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)72.5#27
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)77#86
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)52.7#56
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)34.4#118
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.3#97
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)88.9#23
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)50.2#108
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)5.7#150
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)50.9#40
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)52.4#40
MTEB French v1 · STS · French75.7#33
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)37.8#67
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French67.5#76
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French38.3#77
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French61.4#50
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French29.2#116
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French56.7#115
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)49.8#48
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)42.2#48
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)57.8#50
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)48.8#61
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)15.3#59
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)59.3#105
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi77.8#25
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)19.8#85
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)16.7#92
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean72.4#40
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean35.6#55
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean39.7#61
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch45.8#61
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch55.6#63
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch55.4#60
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch29#56
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch37.7#80
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch77.3#43
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch30.9#80
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch78.2#33
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch80.6#108
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish83.4#32
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish52.2#54
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish63.8#43
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese54.8#21
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Retrieval · Portuguese52.9#17
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese20.1#77
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)34.4#126
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)34.4#126
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)34.4#126
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)38#78
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)40.4#46
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)37.5#88
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English35.1#129
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese48.6#97
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-1.3#97
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-1.3#97
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-1.3#97
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)46.3#27
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)47.7#28
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish68#49
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)74.3#34
MTEB Spanish v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)22.1#29
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish36.3#100
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish46#59
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish39.6#29
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai43#60
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai80.4#17
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)47.8#37
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)46.2#39
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)34.5#83
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)55.8#59
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)43.5#44
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)51#181
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian49.7#46
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian48.3#46
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian53.9#73
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian66.2#59
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian46.3#66
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian47.8#73
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian58.6#50
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian34.1#47
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian31.3#71
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English29.8#84
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)22.3#123
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German13.3#160
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)28.9#78
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)25.6#173
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)48.7#57
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)42.4#58
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)51.7#77
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)38.3#113
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)66.6#65
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)79#47
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)36.6#118
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)44.6#87
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-1.3#97
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)14.9#140
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)51#84

FAQ

How much does Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2 cost?›

There is no per-unit API price: API price not public.

Is Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2 free to use?›

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

How good is Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2, and what is it best at?›

#155 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2 better than BidirLM 1B Embedding?›

On MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish, Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2 scores 68 vs 68.2 — about the same.

When was Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2 released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2019-11-01. It is the current version in its line.

Is Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2 open source?›

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

Can I run Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2 locally?›

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

What is Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2?›

Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from sentence-transformers, released Nov 2019.

What are the best alternatives to Paraphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (open weights).