Embeddings benchmarks
Compare text representations for search, retrieval, classification, and semantic similarity. Check the dataset, language, and retrieval setup before comparing embedding scores.
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Models tested: 17
Retrieval quality in the legal domain across case documents, statutes, legal summarization, and multilingual legal Q&A, with tasks representative of real-world production…
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.67 source score
- 2Gemini Embedding 0010.58 source score
- 3Text Embedding 3 Large0.53 source score
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Models tested: 17
Retrieval quality in German across legal, healthcare, and business domains, with tasks representative of real-world production retrieval demands. A German-language subset of RTEB.…
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.67 source score
- 2Gemini Embedding 0010.66 source score
- 3Text Embedding 3 Large0.56 source score
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Models tested: 17
Retrieval quality in French across legal and general knowledge domains, with tasks representative of real-world production retrieval demands. A French-language subset of RTEB.…
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.6 source score
- 2Gemini Embedding 0010.58 source score
- 3Text Embedding 3 Large0.57 source score
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Models tested: 14
Retrieval quality in the healthcare and medical domain across medical Q&A, healthcare information retrieval, and multilingual medical consultation, with tasks representative of…
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.67 source score
- 2Gemini Embedding 0010.67 source score
- 3Gemini Embedding 20.65 source score
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Models tested: 13
Retrieval quality in the financial domain across finance benchmarks, Q&A, financial document retrieval, and corporate governance, with tasks representative of real-world…
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Gemini Embedding 20.79 source score
- 2Gemini Embedding 0010.78 source score
- 3Qwen3 Embedding0.73 source score
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Models tested: 15
Instruction-following retrieval quality, measuring how well models retrieve relevant documents when given detailed natural language instructions alongside queries.
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.1 source score
- 2Gemini Embedding 0010.05 source score
- 3all-MiniLM-L12-v2-0.00752 source score
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Models tested: 14
Zero-shot retrieval quality across a heterogeneous set of IR tasks and domains, providing a common framework for comparing NLP-based retrieval models.
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.62 source score
- 2Text Embedding 3 Large0.55 source score
- 3BGE Large EN V1.50.54 source score
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Models tested: 13
Long-context retrieval quality across synthetic and real-world tasks featuring documents of varying length with dispersed target information.
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Bge m30.59 source score
- 2Text Embedding 3 Small0.54 source score
- 3Text Embedding 3 Large0.52 source score
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Models tested: 13
Chemical domain text embedding quality across bitext mining, classification, clustering, pair classification, and retrieval.
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Text Embedding 3 Large0.76 source score
- 2Text Embedding 3 Small0.73 source score
- 3Text Embedding Ada 0020.73 source score
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Models tested: 12
Legal document retrieval across case documents, statutes, legal Q&A, and legal summarization in multiple languages.
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Text Embedding 3 Large0.59 source score
- 2Text Embedding 3 Small0.56 source score
- 3Multilingual-E5-Large0.48 source score
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Models tested: 10
German text embedding quality across classification, clustering, pair classification, reranking, retrieval, and semantic similarity.
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Multilingual-E5-Large0.55 source score
- 2E5-Large-v20.46 source score
- 3GTE-Large0.43 source score
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Models tested: 10
Dutch text embedding quality across classification, clustering, pair classification, multilabel classification, reranking, retrieval, and semantic similarity.
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.66 source score
- 2Bge m30.55 source score
- 3Multilingual-E5-Large0.55 source score
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Models tested: 8
Medical information retrieval across clinical, biomedical, and consumer health domains, spanning retrieval, reranking, and clustering tasks.
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Text Embedding 3 Large0.61 source score
- 2Text Embedding 3 Small0.56 source score
- 3GTE-Large0.42 source score
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Models tested: 7
Text embedding quality across Indic languages spanning bitext mining, classification, clustering, pair classification, retrieval, reranking, and semantic similarity.
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1E5-Large-v20.37 source score
- 2E5-Base-v20.36 source score
- 3BGE Base EN V1.50.34 source score
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Models tested: 7
French text embedding quality across classification, clustering, pair classification, reranking, retrieval, and semantic similarity, using high-quality native French datasets.
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1E5-Large-v20.52 source score
- 2BGE Large EN V1.50.51 source score
- 3GTE-Large0.51 source score
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Models tested: 7
Russian text embedding quality across classification, clustering, reranking, pair classification, retrieval, and semantic similarity. In v1.1, MIRACLRetrieval and RiaNewsRetrieval…
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.7 source score
- 2Bge m30.62 source score
- 3E5-Large-v20.34 source score
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Models tested: 5
Text embedding quality across European languages spanning bitext mining, classification, clustering, pair classification, retrieval, reranking, and semantic similarity.
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1E5-Large-v20.5 source score
- 2E5-Base-v20.49 source score
- 3BGE Large EN V1.50.48 source score
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Models tested: 5
Spanish text embedding quality across classification, clustering, pair classification, reranking, retrieval, and semantic similarity. For discussion on benchmark construction, see…
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Gemini Embedding 0010.72 source score
- 2Text Embedding 3 Large0.69 source score
- 3Text Embedding 3 Small0.66 source score
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Models tested: 4
Vietnamese text embedding quality across retrieval, classification, pair classification, clustering, reranking, and semantic similarity.
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Bge m30.54 source score
- 2Multilingual-E5-Large0.52 source score
- 3all-MiniLM-L12-v20.31 source score
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Models tested: 4
Scandinavian text embedding quality covering Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Nynorsk and spanning classification, clustering, retrieval as well as bitext tasks across…
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Text Embedding 3 Large0.63 source score
- 2Text Embedding 3 Small0.58 source score
- 3Bge m30.58 source score
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Models tested: 3
Persian text embedding quality across classification, clustering, pair classification, reranking, retrieval, semantic similarity, and summarization retrieval. In v2, large…
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Bge m30.66 source score
- 2Multilingual-E5-Large0.64 source score
- 3Text Embedding 3 Small0.55 source score
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Models tested: 3
Reasoning-intensive retrieval quality across real-world queries spanning diverse domains including economics, psychology, mathematics, and coding, drawn from naturally occurring…
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Text Embedding 3 Large0.18 source score
- 2All Mpnet Base V20.15 source score
- 3BGE Large EN V1.50.14 source score
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Models tested: 3
Thai text embedding quality across classification, clustering, pair classification, reranking, and retrieval. Tasks are native Thai or high-quality human translations;…
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Bge m30.64 source score
- 2All Mpnet Base V20.12 source score
- 3all-MiniLM-L6-v20.11 source score
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Models tested: 2
Chinese text embedding quality across retrieval, reranking, pair classification, clustering, classification, and semantic similarity.
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.72 source score
- 2Multilingual-E5-Large0.58 source score
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Models tested: 2
Zero-shot retrieval quality in Dutch across the BEIR task suite, created through automated translation of the original English benchmark.
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Multilingual-E5-Large0.46 source score
- 2Bge m30.45 source score
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Models tested: 2
Code retrieval quality across a wide range of popular programming languages, covering code search, text-to-SQL, and code feedback tasks.
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.8 source score
- 2Gemini Embedding 0010.76 source score
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Models tested: 2
Code information retrieval across diverse programming languages and coding tasks, including code search, question answering, and text-to-SQL retrieval.
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Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Qwen3 Embedding0.79 source score
- 2Gemini Embedding 0010.74 source score
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Models tested: 1
Audio-only embedding quality across classification, clustering, pair classification, reranking, and retrieval tasks.
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Models tested: 1
Retrieval quality in English across legal, finance, code, and healthcare domains, with tasks representative of real-world production retrieval demands. An English-only subset of…
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Models tested: 1
Retrieval quality in the code domain across algorithmic problems, data science tasks, code evaluation, SQL retrieval, and multilingual code retrieval, with tasks representative of…
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Models tested: 1
Portuguese text embedding quality benchmark across semantic text similarity, classification, reranking and retrieval.
Top models · MTEB
Latest result per model · Version not reported
- 1Multilingual-E5-Large0.69 source score
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Models tested: 1
Code embedding and reranking quality across code-to-text, text-to-code, and code-to-code retrieval tasks, using counterfactually rewritten problems in five programming languages…
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Models tested: 1
Korean text embedding quality across classification, clustering, pair classification (NLI), reranking, retrieval, and semantic similarity. Expanded successor to MTEB(kor, v1):…
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