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Potion Multilingual 128M

May 2025
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24.1MTEB English v2
May 2025released
en, Esperanto, es +90Languages

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1Gemini Embedding 001832Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small82.53Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small82.54Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Nano81.74Jina Embeddings v5 Text Nano81.7
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42E5 Base v268.943Potion Multilingual 128M68.544Bge Large En v1.567.7

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Embeddings & Retrieval#179 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+17%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBOpenJina Embeddings v5 Text Smallunstated+21%—$0.05Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen+16%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBBetterBge M3unstatedOpen+14%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iBetterE5 Large v2unstatedOpen+4%—$0.01Languages: loses Esperanto, es, Estonian +89+1

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
LicenceMITfree for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR-NL · Mean over tasks · Dutch20.2#14
BEIR-NL · Mean over task types · Dutch20.2#14
BEIR-NL · Retrieval · Dutch20.2#14
BRIGHT · Mean over tasks · English6.2#27
BRIGHT · Mean over task types · English6.2#27
BRIGHT · Retrieval · English6.2#27
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over tasks · Mandarin Chinese41#31
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Mean over task types · Mandarin Chinese43#31
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese32.5#77
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese34.3#72
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese32.3#75
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese38.1#68
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese59.1#71
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Classification · Mandarin Chinese62.1#38
ChemTEB · Mean over tasks · multilingual (13 languages)61.1#44
ChemTEB · Mean over task types · multilingual (13 languages)36.7#45
ChemTEB · Classification · English77.5#43
ChemTEB · Retrieval · English40.9#48
ChemTEB · Pair Classification · multilingual (13 languages)40.1#45
ChemTEB · Clustering · English24.8#45
ChemTEB · Bitext Mining · English0#46
MTEB Persian v2 · STS · Persian70.9#30
MTEB Persian v2 · Clustering · Persian58.4#27
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian51.5#60
MTEB Persian v2 · Bitext Mining · Persian41.7#32
MTEB Persian v2 · Pair Classification · Persian75.2#33
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese35.4#69
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese75.5#67
JMTEB v2 · Reranking · Japanese43.2#26
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English26.7#138
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English26.7#138
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English26.7#138
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German25.3#77
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German34.6#69
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German47.5#162
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German19.3#107
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)39#82
MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)60.7#67
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)58.5#95
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)32.4#131
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.1#129
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)82.5#94
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)45.6#135
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)8.4#137
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French27.1#138
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.4#58
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French48.5#191
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)51.6#47
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)44.2#47
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)57.9#49
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)58.9#55
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)27.1#56
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)76.4#86
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi60.4#96
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)14.8#90
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)13.9#96
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)47.2#23
MTEB Korean v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)48.1#23
MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean66.6#42
MTEB Korean v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)39.1#30
MTEB Korean v2 · Pair Classification · Korean56.1#25
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean31.3#59
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean46.5#55
MTEB Korean v2 · Clustering · Korean48.9#23
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch42.4#72
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch50.3#70
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch52.5#70
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch26.3#68
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch35.7#88
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch64.1#76
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch32.5#64
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch60.4#98
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch80.3#114
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish65.2#90
MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish33.1#12
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over tasks · Portuguese56.8#20
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Mean over task types · Portuguese52#20
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Classification · Portuguese51.5#23
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Retrieval · Portuguese47.3#21
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese17.9#147
MTEB Portuguese v1 · STS · Portuguese61.1#20
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Reranking · Portuguese82#13
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)37.9#102
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)37.9#102
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)37.9#102
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)27.8#105
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)21.5#118
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)30#105
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English29.3#202
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese5.1#204
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2.1#129
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2.1#129
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2.1#129
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)49.8#25
MTEB Spanish v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)49.3#26
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish53.8#166
MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)68.5#43
MTEB Spanish v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)30.1#25
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish44#47
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish22.8#113
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish76.7#23
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai21.6#106
MTEB Thai v1 · Classification · Thai53.9#29
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai61.7#94
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)36.1#67
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)45.1#43
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)58.3#149
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over tasks · Vietnamese35.5#22
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Mean over task types · Vietnamese49.3#23
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Classification · Vietnamese54.1#27
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · STS · Vietnamese65.7#28
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Retrieval · Vietnamese15.8#25
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Clustering · Vietnamese33.1#27
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Reranking · Vietnamese54.8#28
VN-MTEB Vietnamese v1 · Pair Classification · Vietnamese72.4#25
CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages)27.7#60
CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages)27.7#60
CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages)27.7#60
CoREB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)26.3#22
CoREB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)26.3#22
CoREB v1 · Reranking · multilingual (6 languages)34.2#23
CoREB v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (6 languages)18.4#22
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages)29.6#52
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages)29.6#52
MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages)29.6#52
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian33.5#86
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian41.2#85
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian50.3#132
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian29.2#81
RTEB Code beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)18#8
RTEB English beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (5 languages)22#10
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English27.3#86
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)13.2#155
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German30.5#98
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)14.9#85
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)29.4#148
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)47.2#61
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)40.2#62
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)52.4#74
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)37.6#120
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)61.2#72
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)71.4#141
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)37.9#110
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)40.7#89
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.1#129
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)15.1#133
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)47.4#101

FAQ

How much does Potion Multilingual 128M cost?›

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

Is Potion Multilingual 128M free to use?›

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

How good is Potion Multilingual 128M, and what is it best at?›

#179 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Potion Multilingual 128M better than E5 Base v2?›

On MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages), Potion Multilingual 128M scores 68.5 vs 68.9 — about the same.

When was Potion Multilingual 128M released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2025-05-23. It is the current version in its line.

Is Potion Multilingual 128M open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (MIT licence).

Can I run Potion Multilingual 128M locally?›

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

What is Potion Multilingual 128M?›

Potion Multilingual 128M is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from minishlab, released May 2025.

What are the best alternatives to Potion Multilingual 128M?›

Multilingual E5 Large Instruct (better), Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small (open weights).