USER Base

Jun 2024

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1Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 082660.3 2Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 082657.2 3Giga Embeddings Instruct57.1 4BERTA56.5 5Giga Embeddings Instruct 480M 082654.8

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ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes

BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+8%—$0.002Languages: not verified aOpenGiga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826unstated+60%——Memory (4-bit): 0.3 GB → 6.3 GB

BetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+18%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1 iBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+9%—$0.01

BetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+6%—$0.01Languages: not verified+1

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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 · English23.2#178

BEIR · Mean over task types · English23.2#178

BEIR · Retrieval · English23.2#178

MTEB Persian v2 · Reranking · Persian21.7#134

JMTEB v2 · STS · Japanese46#140

LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English23.5#144

LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English23.5#144

LongEmbed · Retrieval · English23.5#144

MTEB German v1 · Mean over tasks · German31.3#85

MTEB German v1 · Mean over task types · German30.7#85

MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German16.1#121

MTEB German v1 · Retrieval · German20.7#94

MTEB German v1 · Classification · German42.1#144

MTEB German v1 · STS · German41.4#109

MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German49.1#118

MTEB German v1 · Reranking · German14.6#125

MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages)59.5#68

MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages)47.5#109

MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-2#127

MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)38.6#155

MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)8.2#140

MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)37.3#87

MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages)41.2#86

MTEB French v1 · STS · French63.1#88

MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages)16.8#115

MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French45.4#117

MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French30.4#103

MTEB French v1 · Classification · French44.6#112

MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French31#36

MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French57.2#107

MTEB Indic v1 · Classification · multilingual (8 languages)40.7#130

MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages)4.2#101

MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)35.3#171

MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)-0.9#171

MTEB Korean v2 · STS · Korean15#77

MTEB Korean v2 · Reranking · Korean5.3#134

MTEB Korean v2 · Classification · Korean19.7#130

MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch68.4#181

MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish67.6#76

MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish42#86

MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish51#97

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese20.1#76

MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages)26.2#146

MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages)26.2#146

MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages)26.2#146

MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English26.7#210

MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese9.7#186

FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-2#127

FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-2#127

FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-2#127

MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages)59.9#59

MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish33.7#113

MTEB Spanish v1 · Reranking · Spanish20.5#121

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages)25.3#139

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Classification · multilingual (6 languages)46#138

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)61.2#131

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian58.3#33

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian56.9#34

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian59.9#45

MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian74.3#14

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian55.6#56

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian53.3#50

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian59.8#42

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian57.8#37

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian37.7#35

RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages)2.9#189

RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German3.6#203

RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages)19.6#192

MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)45.7#130

MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)51.2#101

MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-2#127

MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)17.5#86

MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)41#133

LongEmbed · Mean over tasks · English · USER BGE-M359.4#1

LongEmbed · Mean over task types · English · USER BGE-M359.4#1

LongEmbed · Retrieval · English · USER BGE-M359.4#1

MTEB German v1 · Clustering · German · Text2Vec Base Chinese Paraphrase / USER BGE-M329.9#1

MTEB German v1 · Classification · German · Stella Large Chinese v3 · 1792 dimensions / Text2Vec Base Chinese Paraphrase / USER BGE-M364.5#1

MTEB German v1 · STS · German · USER BGE-M371.7#1

MTEB German v1 · Pair Classification · German · Text2Vec Base Chinese Paraphrase / USER BGE-M352.9#1

MTEB Europe v1 · STS · multilingual (8 languages) · USER BGE-M373.8#1

MTEB Europe v1 · Classification · multilingual (23 languages) · USER BGE-M359#1

MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English · USER BGE-M3-2.7#1

MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages) · USER BGE-M357#1

MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages) · USER BGE-M312.5#1

MTEB French v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages) · USER BGE-M358.2#1

MTEB French v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (2 languages) · USER BGE-M359.1#1

MTEB French v1 · STS · French · USER BGE-M381#1

MTEB French v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (2 languages) · USER BGE-M353.9#1

MTEB French v1 · Reranking · French · USER BGE-M379.5#1

MTEB French v1 · Clustering · French · USER BGE-M341.7#1

MTEB French v1 · Classification · French · USER BGE-M366.7#1

MTEB French v1 · Summarization · French · USER BGE-M329.9#1

MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French · USER BGE-M360.7#1

MTEB Indic v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (20 languages) · USER BGE-M38.5#1

MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages) · USER BGE-M334.4#1

MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages) · USER BGE-M38.5#1

MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over tasks · Dutch51.1#51

MTEB Dutch v1 · Mean over task types · Dutch57.3#55

MTEB Dutch v1 · Classification · Dutch57.9#54

MTEB Dutch v1 · Clustering · Dutch27.8#60

MTEB Dutch v1 · Retrieval · Dutch54.9#48

MTEB Dutch v1 · STS · Dutch74.3#54

MTEB Dutch v1 · Multilabel Classification · Dutch34.3#53

MTEB Dutch v1 · Pair Classification · Dutch65.3#69

MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch · USER BGE-M386.8#1

MTEB Polish v1 · Pair Classification · Polish · USER BGE-M383.4#1

MTEB Polish v1 · Classification · Polish · USER BGE-M360.8#1

MTEB Polish v1 · STS · Polish · USER BGE-M365.2#1

MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese · USER BGE-M318.3#1

MTEB Law v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (3 languages) · USER BGE-M347.4#1

MTEB Law v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (3 languages) · USER BGE-M347.4#1

MTEB Law v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (3 languages) · USER BGE-M347.4#1

MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English · USER BGE-M332.8#1

MTEB Medical v1 · Reranking · Mandarin Chinese · Stella Large Chinese v3 · 1792 dimensions / USER BGE-M310.4#2

FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English · USER BGE-M3-2.7#1

FollowIR · Mean over task types · English · USER BGE-M3-2.7#1

FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English · USER BGE-M3-2.7#1

MTEB Spanish v1 · STS · multilingual (2 languages) · USER BGE-M377.4#1

MTEB Spanish v1 · Clustering · Spanish · USER BGE-M345.5#1

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Clustering · multilingual (2 languages) · USER BGE-M337.6#1

MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages) · Qwen3 Embedding Scandi 0.6B / USER BGE-M367.7#1

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small62.9#1

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small62.3#1

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small61.9#1

MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small76.8#1

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small68.7#1

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small53.7#2

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small65.1#1

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small74.1#1

MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small36.2#1

RTEB French beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (2 languages) · USER BGE-M346.5#1

RTEB German beta · Mean over tasks · German · USER BGE-M345.9#1

RTEB Law beta · Mean over tasks · multilingual (4 languages) · USER BGE-M342.5#1

MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages) · USER BGE-M353.2#1

MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages) · USER BGE-M359.5#1

MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English · USER BGE-M3-2.7#1

MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages) · USER BGE-M318.6#1

MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages) · USER BGE-M351.5#1

FAQ

How much does USER Base cost?›

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

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

#177 of 200 in Embeddings.

Is USER Base better than Cohere Embed Multilingual v3.0?›

On MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian, USER Base scores 37.7 vs 38.2 — about the same.

When was USER Base released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2024-06-10. It is the current version in its line.

Is USER Base open source?›

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

Can I run USER Base locally?›

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

What is USER Base?›

USER Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from deepvk, released Jun 2024.

What are the best alternatives to USER Base?›

EmbeddingGemma 300M (better), Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826 (open weights).