Sentence T5 Base measured on 15 of 261 Embeddings benchmarks15
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85.2MTEB English v2
Feb 2022released
0K tokensMax input
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Alternatives?
ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+27%—$0.002Languages: not verified+1GOpenSTS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2unstated+46%——Languages: not verified+1
BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+38%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+31%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBiBetterMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen+27%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
EmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+27%—$0.002Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+38%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1iMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+31%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBiMultilingual E5 LargeunstatedOpen+27%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GB
Bge M3unstatedOpen+25%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
GSTS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2unstatedOpen+46%——Languages: not verified+1Qwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+38%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1OOcten Embedding 8BOpen+38%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.5 GB
Jina Embeddings v5 Text NanounstatedOpen+37%—$0.02Languages: not verified
Llama Embed Nemotron 8BOpen+37%——Languages: not verified+1ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
sParaphrase Multilingual Mpnet Base v2unstatedOpen+27%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GBsParaphrase Multilingual MiniLM L12 v2unstatedOpen+23%——sLaBSEunstatedOpen+11%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBsStatic Similarity Mrl Multilingual v1unstatedOpen+5%——Max input: not verifiedsSentence T5 LargeunstatedOpen+5%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GBsGtr T5 LargeunstatedOpen+3%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GBsAll MiniLM L12 v2unstatedOpen-5%—$0.005sMulti Qa MiniLM L6 Cos v1unstatedOpen-9%——All sentence-transformers models →Run 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
LicenceApache-2.0free for commercial use
Benchmarks
in Embeddings & RetrievalBEIR · Mean over tasks · English33.6#160
BEIR · Retrieval · English33.6#160
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch63.1#80
FAQ
How much does Sentence T5 Base cost?›
There is no per-unit API price: price not verified.
How good is Sentence T5 Base, and what is it best at?›
#82 of 238 in Embeddings.
Is Sentence T5 Base better than E5 Small v2?›
On MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch, Sentence T5 Base scores 63.1 vs 63.4 — about the same.
When was Sentence T5 Base released? Is there a newer version?›
Released 2022-02-09. It is the current version in its line.
Is Sentence T5 Base open source?›
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
Can I run Sentence T5 Base locally?›
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
What is Sentence T5 Base?›
Sentence T5 Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from sentence-transformers, released Feb 2022.
What are the best alternatives to Sentence T5 Base?›
EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), STS Multilingual Mpnet Base v2 (open weights).