Snowflake Arctic Embed S

Apr 2024
Snowflake Arctic Embed S
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54.9MTEB English v2
Apr 2024released
384Dimensions
1K tokensMax input

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1F2LLM v2 8B43.22F2LLM v2 14B42.73Octen Embedding 8B41.54Llama Embed Nemotron 8B41.55Qwen 3 Embedding 8B41.5
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100Mmlw E5 Small28.7101Snowflake Arctic Embed S28.3102LaBSE Ru Turbo28

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Embeddings & Retrieval#61 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+32%—$0.002Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.2 GBcOpenF2LLM v2 8Bunstated+53%——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 4.5 GBiBetterE5 Base v2unstatedOpen+11%—$0.005Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GBBetterBge Base En v1.5unstatedOpen+9%—$0.005Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GBBetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+47%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 4.5 GB

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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 · English52#76
BEIR · Mean over task types · English52#76
BEIR · Retrieval · English52#76
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian22.1#129
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese11.9#132
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese45.7#141
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English39.5#77
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English39.5#77
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English39.5#77
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German39.7#60
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German39.5#53
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German22.1#101
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German38.7#52
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German46.6#125
MTEB German v1 · STS · German52#72
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German50#88
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German27.8#76
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)44.2#55
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)32.1#139
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)48.9#101
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)33.1#129
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-3.1#167
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)80.7#105
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)50#112
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)8.6#134
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)48.1#59
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)50.8#52
MTEB French v1 · STS · French70.2#61
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)40.7#53
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French69.6#62
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French35.6#87
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French52#91
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.4#63
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French56.8#113
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)33#84
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)23#91
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)44.1#84
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)11.3#116
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)2.7#123
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)38.3#162
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi51.3#166
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)10#104
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)3.4#139
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean9.2#113
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean22.4#91
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch39.4#89
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch46.7#89
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch45.8#97
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch18.9#99
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch40#71
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch57.2#101
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch28.3#101
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch58.6#117
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch78#133
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish61.6#124
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish40.4#105
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish50.5#99
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese22.4#29
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)38#100
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)38#100
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)38#100
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)38.1#77
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)29.4#95
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)41.9#73
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English33.5#153
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese12.9#169
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-3.1#167
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-3.1#167
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-3.1#167
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish56.2#148
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish40.4#81
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish46.3#58
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai2.4#187
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai50.8#179
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)28.7#123
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)48.5#101
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)57.1#157
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian20.6#99
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian21.7#97
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian25.3#136
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian25.2#131
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian13.2#140
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian14.5#134
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian48.1#150
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian1.4#92
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian24.3#155
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)24.1#113
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German17.7#130
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)31.8#130
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)46.3#126
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)36.7#126
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)71.5#135
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)39.8#94
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)22.8#136
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-3.1#167
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)14.8#143
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)40#137

FAQ

How much does Snowflake Arctic Embed S cost?›

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

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

#61 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Snowflake Arctic Embed S better than Mmlw E5 Small?›

On MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch, Snowflake Arctic Embed S scores 28.3 vs 28.7 — about the same.

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

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

Is Snowflake Arctic Embed S open source?›

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

Can I run Snowflake Arctic Embed S locally?›

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

What is Snowflake Arctic Embed S?›

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

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

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).