Yamnet

Name: Yamnet
Brand: Google

Oct 2020

Yamnet

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39.3MAEB v1 audio-only

Oct 2020released

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Ranking?

Full ranking →

1Ebind Full26 2Clap Htsat Fused22.7 3Msclap 202219.9 4Msclap 202315.2 5Qwen 2 Audio 7B12.7

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31LCO Embedding Omni 7B1.7 32Yamnet1.6 33Qwen 3 Omni 30B A3B Thinking1.3

Strong at

Embeddings & Retrieval#4 of 13

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes

BetterVggishOpen×5——sBetterCnn14 Esc50Open×4.7——MBetterAst Finetuned Audioset 10 10 0.4593Open×4.4——Memory (4-bit): 0 GB → 0.1 GB mBetterHeAR S1.1Open×3.9——

BetterEncodec 24khzOpen×3.3——

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

MAEB v1 · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)37.8#24

MAEB v1 · Audio Pair Classification · English54.6#13

MAEB v1 · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content81.7#7

MAEB v1 · Audio Multilabel Classification · English57.4#18

MAEB v1 · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)1.6#32

MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over tasks · multilingual (102 languages)39.3#24

MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over task types · multilingual (102 languages)51.1#20

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)37.8#24

MAEB v1 audio-only · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (4 languages)79.8#18

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)1.6#32

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Pair Classification · English54.6#13

MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content81.7#7

FAQ

How much does Yamnet cost?›

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

How good is Yamnet, and what is it best at?›

#4 of 13 in Audio.

Is Yamnet better than LCO Embedding Omni 7B?›

On MAEB v1 · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages), Yamnet scores 1.6 vs 1.7 — about the same.

When was Yamnet released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2020-10-06. It is the current version in its line.

Is Yamnet open source?›

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

Can I run Yamnet locally?›

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

What is Yamnet?›

Yamnet is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Google, released Oct 2020.

What are the best alternatives to Yamnet?›

Vggish (better).