Snowflake Arctic Embed M

Apr 2024
Snowflake Arctic Embed M
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57.5MTEB English v2
Apr 2024released
768Dimensions
1K tokensMax input

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1Uibk Embedding v191.52GTE ModernColBERT v190.63UltraBERT Embed 150M79.34Voyage Multilingual 279.25Voyage Law 278.8
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74UAE Large v140.175Snowflake Arctic Embed M40.176Bge Large En v1.540.1

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Embeddings & Retrieval#42 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterBge M3unstatedOpen+48%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.3 GBDOpenUibk Embedding v1unstated×2.3——Max input: 1K tokens → 0K tokensiBetterE5 Large v2unstatedOpen+7%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.2 GBVBetterVoyage 3 Liteunstated+78%—$0.02BetterJina Embeddings v5 Text NanounstatedOpen+59%—$0.02

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

History

3 versions
40455055Jul 24Oct 24Release dateLongEmbed (task avg)v1.5v2.0
40455055Jul 24Oct 24Release dateLongEmbed (task avg)v1.5v2.0

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
BEIR · Mean over tasks · English54.9#49
BEIR · Mean over task types · English54.9#49
BEIR · Retrieval · English54.9#49
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian26.7#116
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese13.7#128
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese53.1#139
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English40.1#75
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English40.1#75
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English40.1#75
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German37.3#78
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German36.8#76
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German43.7#143
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German49#136
MTEB German v1 · STS · German43.2#116
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German22.9#102
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German36.3#69
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German26#80
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)49#103
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.3#138
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)10.4#125
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)80.1#127
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)33.8#124
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)43.1#74
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)50.8#103
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)31.8#142
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)46.5#66
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)48.4#66
MTEB French v1 · STS · French63.4#91
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)38.5#71
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French48.1#112
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French39.3#70
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French67.9#80
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French55.3#139
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French26.3#157
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)33.6#82
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)23.9#86
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)44.6#84
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)2.2#147
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)11.1#97
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)41.7#153
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)12.7#116
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi51.7#164
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)3.2#152
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean20.9#127
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean14.4#82
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch38.4#91
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch45.6#94
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch38.2#77
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch45.5#99
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch29.6#93
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch52.2#122
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch18.5#104
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch79.6#120
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch55.8#133
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over tasks · Polish44.8#76
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over task types · Polish44.8#74
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish40.5#112
MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish25.6#77
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish51.3#101
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish61.7#127
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese19.5#98
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)39.8#92
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)39.8#92
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)39.8#92
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)40.8#62
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)31.3#89
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)45.2#56
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English34.7#135
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese14#173
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2.3#138
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2.3#138
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2.3#138
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish40.4#82
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish55.7#153
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish42.5#68
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish69.6#75
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai50.8#181
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai4.1#131
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)43.5#86
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)44.9#86
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)47.6#129
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)42.2#82
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)30.8#124
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)59#146
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian24.4#84
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian24.8#85
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian29.4#118
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian18#114
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian18.9#124
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian24.2#162
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian33.8#120
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian2.9#83
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian46.3#177
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)28.6#97
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German15.4#156
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)33.3#122
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)38.4#112
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)46.9#121
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)39.3#100
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)14.9#143
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)22#143
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.3#138
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)42.8#127
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)70.9#155

FAQ

How much does Snowflake Arctic Embed M cost?›

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

How good is Snowflake Arctic Embed M, and what is it best at?›

#42 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.

Is Snowflake Arctic Embed M better than UAE Large v1?›

On LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English, Snowflake Arctic Embed M scores 40.1 vs 40.1 — about the same.

When was Snowflake Arctic Embed M released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-04-12. It is the current version in its line.

Is Snowflake Arctic Embed M open source?›

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

Can I run Snowflake Arctic Embed M locally?›

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

What is Snowflake Arctic Embed M?›

Snowflake Arctic Embed M is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Snowflake, released Apr 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Snowflake Arctic Embed M?›

Bge M3 (better), Uibk Embedding v1 (open weights).