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Sante Embed

Sep 2026
SSante Embed
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42.3MTEB Medical v1
Sep 2026released
1,536Dimensions
131K tokensMax input
en, es, fr +6Languages

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1Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct66.62F2LLM v2 14B65.23Gte Qwen2 1.5B Instruct654F2LLM v2 8B64.95F2LLM v2 4B64.5
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10Linq Embed Mistral63.911Sante Embed63.612NV Embed v163

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 Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)63.6#11
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)65.2#8
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)65.7#10
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English42.3#41
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese87.7#21
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)44.6#57

FAQ

How much does Sante Embed cost?›

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

Is Sante Embed free to use?›

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

How good is Sante Embed, and what is it best at?›

#39 of 220 in Embeddings.

Is Sante Embed better than Linq Embed Mistral?›

On MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages), Sante Embed scores 63.6 vs 63.9 — about the same.

When was Sante Embed released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-09-15. It is the current version in its line.

Is Sante Embed open source?›

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

Can I run Sante Embed locally?›

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

What is Sante Embed?›

Sante Embed is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Singaraj, released Sep 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Sante Embed?›

Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct (better).