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Text2vec Base Chinese

Jan 2022
sText2vec Base Chinese
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$0.005per 1M tokens
1.3RTEB French beta
Jan 2022released
768Dimensions
0K tokensMax input
zhLanguages

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1Youtu Embedding84.32QZhou Embedding Zh81.83Qwen 3 Embedding 8B80.14Qwen 3 Embedding 4B77.95Jasper Token Compression 600M77.5
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74Potion Multilingual 128M38.175Text2vec Base Chinese37.776Meta SONAR34.4

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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 Mandarin Chinese v1 · STS · Mandarin Chinese41.7#72
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese37.7#75
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Retrieval · Mandarin Chinese38.8#79
MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese62.8#68
MTEB German v1 · Classification · German43#144
MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German50#96
MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German7.6#161
RTEB Finnish beta · Mean over tasks · English15.2#100
RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)1.3#203
RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German3#215
RTEB Health beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)4.1#99
RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)13.8#208

FAQ

How much does Text2vec Base Chinese cost?›

$0.005 per 1M tokens.

Is Text2vec Base Chinese free to use?›

There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.005 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is Text2vec Base Chinese, and what is it best at?›

#197 of 215 in Embeddings.

Is Text2vec Base Chinese better than Potion Multilingual 128M?›

On MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Clustering · Mandarin Chinese, Text2vec Base Chinese scores 37.7 vs 38.1 — about the same.

How can I use Text2vec Base Chinese?›

Through the shibing624 API.

When was Text2vec Base Chinese released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2022-01-23. It is the current version in its line.

Is Text2vec Base Chinese open source?›

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

Can I run Text2vec Base Chinese locally?›

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

What is Text2vec Base Chinese?›

Text2vec Base Chinese is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from shibing624, released Jan 2022.

What are the best alternatives to Text2vec Base Chinese?›

Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), Youtu Embedding (open weights).