Snowflake Arctic Embed Xs

Jul 2024
Snowflake Arctic Embed Xs
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52.6MTEB English v2
Jul 2024released
384Dimensions
1K tokensMax input

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1Nemotron 3 Embed 8B Legal702Nemotron 3 Embed 8B BF1669.83F2LLM v2 14B67.24Llama Embed Nemotron 8B675Qwen 3 Embedding 8B66.8
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96GIST All MiniLM L6 v230.997Snowflake Arctic Embed Xs29.798Mmlw E5 Large29.4

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Embeddings & Retrieval#83 of 200

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen×2.1—$0.002Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.2 GBmOpenNemotron 3 Embed 8B Legal×2.4——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 4.8 GBiBetterE5 Base v2unstatedOpen+36%—$0.005Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GBBetterBge Base En v1.5unstatedOpen+36%—$0.005Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GBsBetterAll MiniLM L12 v2unstatedOpen+7%—$0.005Max input: 1K tokens → 0K tokens

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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 · English50.1#103
BEIR · Mean over task types · English50.1#103
BEIR · Retrieval · English50.1#103
MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian22.7#125
JMTEB v2 · Clustering · Japanese10.1#155
JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese48.3#144
LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English36.8#95
LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English36.8#95
LongEmbed · Retrieval · English36.8#95
MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German35.5#88
MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German34#89
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German47.3#124
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German49.3#114
MTEB German v1 · STS · German40.8#120
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German18.7#117
MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German29.5#92
MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German18.4#111
MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)48#109
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.4#139
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)6.4#148
MTEB Europe v1 · Pair Classification · multilingual (11 languages)78.3#138
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)31.2#137
MTEB Europe v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (25 languages)37.5#103
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)47.4#131
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)26.9#151
MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)43.9#75
MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)46.7#73
MTEB French v1 · STS · French65.5#82
MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)31.5#96
MTEB French v1 · Classification · French48.4#110
MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French34.8#92
MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French62#106
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French54.4#155
MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French30.4#61
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (25 languages)32.7#91
MTEB Indic v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (25 languages)23.1#93
MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)43.7#95
MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)1.8#153
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)9.6#107
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)41.9#150
MTEB Indic v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (14 languages)9.5#131
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi52.6#149
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)2.5#185
MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean19.6#143
MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean5.9#132
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch35.1#103
MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch43.9#104
MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch29.7#97
MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch44#109
MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch26.8#109
MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch54.3#115
MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch16.7#111
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch76.5#145
MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch59#113
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over tasks · Polish43.1#85
MTEB Polish v1 · Mean over task types · Polish42.9#85
MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish40#118
MTEB Polish v1 · Clustering · Polish21.4#95
MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish51.7#99
MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish58.5#148
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese20.5#67
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)35.7#121
MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)35.7#121
MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)35.7#121
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (10 languages)34.3#91
MTEB Medical v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (10 languages)27.3#104
MTEB Medical v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (10 languages)37.1#92
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English32.6#167
MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese12.2#177
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2.4#139
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2.4#139
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2.4#139
MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish37.1#96
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish55.8#151
MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish32.9#90
MTEB Spanish v1 · Classification · Spanish66.6#81
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai50.9#179
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai3.3#166
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (6 languages)39.7#102
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (6 languages)40.5#103
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)47.3#134
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)32.3#100
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)26.4#141
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)56.1#163
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian21#97
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian22.1#96
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian25.3#140
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian13.6#147
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian14.9#133
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian24.3#157
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian28.2#130
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian1.4#93
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian46.8#172
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)16.1#147
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German9.7#189
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)28.9#160
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)35.3#131
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)45.2#136
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)35.2#129
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)13.4#159
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)20.1#150
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2.4#139
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)39.7#140
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)71#151

FAQ

How much does Snowflake Arctic Embed Xs cost?›

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

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

#83 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is Snowflake Arctic Embed Xs better than GIST All MiniLM L6 v2?›

On MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch, Snowflake Arctic Embed Xs scores 29.7 vs 30.9 — lower.

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

Released 2024-07-08. It is the current version in its line.

Is Snowflake Arctic Embed Xs open source?›

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

Can I run Snowflake Arctic Embed Xs locally?›

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

What is Snowflake Arctic Embed Xs?›

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

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

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Nemotron 3 Embed 8B Legal (open weights).