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USER2 Base

Apr 2025
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56.4MTEB Russian v1.1
Apr 2025released
8K tokensMax input

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1Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 082678.42Giga Embeddings Instruct 3B 082678.23Giga Embeddings Instruct76.74F2LLM v2 14B76.65F2LLM v2 8B76
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37NV Embed v261.938USER2 Base61.739Voyage Multilingual 261.7

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
BetterEmbeddingGemma 300MunstatedOpen+10%—$0.002Max input: 8K tokens → 2K tokens+1aOpenGiga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1.8B 0826unstated+27%——Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 6.3 GBBetterQwen 3 Embedding 8BunstatedOpen+21%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 4.5 GBBetterQwen 3 Embedding 0.6BunstatedOpen+9%—$0.01Memory (4-bit): 0.1 GB → 0.4 GBiBetterMultilingual E5 Large InstructunstatedOpen+7%—$0.01Max input: 8K tokens → 1K tokens+1

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

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian61.2#25
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian59.5#25
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian61.7#38
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian74.3#16
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian62.2#47
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian59.4#28
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian56.4#76
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian66.1#26
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian36.6#41
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over tasks · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small58.5#2
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Mean over task types · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small56.5#2
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small59.8#2
MTEB Russian v1.1 · STS · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small72.2#2
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Reranking · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small58.3#2
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Clustering · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small57.1#1
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small54#2
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Retrieval · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small60.6#2
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Multilabel Classification · Russian · USER BGE-M3 / USER2 Small33.5#2

FAQ

How much does USER2 Base cost?›

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

How good is USER2 Base, and what is it best at?›

#72 of 193 in Embeddings.

Is USER2 Base better than NV Embed v2?›

On MTEB Russian v1.1 · Classification · Russian, USER2 Base scores 61.7 vs 61.9 — about the same.

When was USER2 Base released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2025-04-19. It is the current version in its line.

Is USER2 Base open source?›

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

Can I run USER2 Base locally?›

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

What is USER2 Base?›

USER2 Base is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from collections, released Apr 2025.

What are the best alternatives to USER2 Base?›

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