Multilingual Text Embedding on MTEB Multilingual
72.3Mean Score (Task)KaLM-Embedding-Gemma3-12B-2511
Evaluation Results
| Method | Links | |||||||||||
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| KaLM-Embedding-Gemma3-12B-2511Size=12B2026.01 | 72.3 | 62.5 | 83.8 | 77.9 | 55.8 | 5.5 | 33 | 84.7 | 67.3 | 75.7 | 79 | |
| Qwen3-Embedding-8BSize=8B2026.01 | 70.6 | 61.7 | 80.9 | 74 | 57.7 | 10.1 | 28.7 | 86.4 | 65.6 | 70.9 | 81.1 | |
| Seed-1.6-embedding-12152026.01 | 70.3 | 61.3 | 78.7 | 76.8 | 56.8 | 0 | 46.2 | 85.5 | 66.2 | 66.1 | 75.9 | |
| llama-embed-nemotron-8bSize=8B2026.01 | 69.5 | 61.1 | 81.7 | 73.2 | 54.4 | 10.8 | 29.9 | 84 | 67.8 | 68.7 | 79.4 | |
| Qwen3-Embedding-4BSize=4B2026.01 | 69.5 | 60.9 | 79.4 | 72.3 | 57.2 | 11.6 | 26.8 | 85.1 | 65.1 | 69.6 | 80.9 | |
| Qwen3-4BParams=4B, Dim=25602026.02 | 69.5 | 60.9 | 79.4 | 72.3 | 57.1 | 11.6 | 26.8 | 85.1 | 65.1 | 69.6 | 80.9 | |
| FP16 teacherBackbone=Qwen3-0.6B2026.06 | 69 | — | 82.85 | 73.88 | 54 | — | — | 82.07 | 63.16 | 70.15 | 77.09 | |
| Gemini Embedding2026.01 | 68.4 | 59.6 | 79.3 | 71.8 | 54.6 | 5.2 | 29.2 | 83.6 | 65.6 | 67.7 | 79.4 | |
| Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8BSize=8B2026.01 | 67.9 | 58.9 | 77.5 | 72 | 55.8 | 4.5 | 28.6 | 81.1 | 65.7 | 69.4 | 75.4 | |
| BITEMBEDmultilingualBackbone=Qwen3-0.6B2026.06 | 67.49 | — | 81.47 | 72.65 | 53.06 | — | — | 80.47 | 62.12 | 68.33 | 74.97 | |
| jina-embeddings-v5-text-smallParams=677M, Dim=10242026.02 | 67 | 58.9 | 69.7 | 71.3 | 53.4 | 1.3 | 42 | 82.9 | 65.7 | 64.9 | 78.9 | |
| FP16 teacherBackbone=Gemma3-270M2026.06 | 66.55 | — | 81.54 | 71.84 | 52.51 | — | — | 80.12 | 61.9 | 66.38 | 75.35 | |
| BITEMBEDmultilingualBackbone=Gemma3-270M2026.06 | 66.26 | — | 80.47 | 71.09 | 52.37 | — | — | 79.72 | 60.5 | 66.71 | 74.35 | |
| jina-embeddings-v5-text-nanoParams=239M, Dim=7682026.02 | 65.5 | 57.7 | 67.7 | 69.2 | 52.7 | 0 | 41.3 | 81.9 | 64.6 | 63.3 | 78.2 | |
| Qwen3-Embedding-0.6BSize=0.6B2026.01 | 64.3 | 56 | 72.2 | 66.8 | 52.3 | 5.1 | 24.6 | 80.8 | 61.4 | 64.6 | 76.2 | |
| Qwen3-0.6B (instr.)Params=596M, Dim=1024, Type=instruction-tuned2026.02 | 64.3 | 56 | 72.2 | 66.8 | 52.3 | 5.1 | 24.6 | 80.8 | 61.4 | 64.7 | 76.2 | |
| Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2BSize=2B2026.01 | 63.9 | 55.8 | 69.5 | 65.9 | 52.5 | 3.9 | 26.1 | 78.5 | 64.8 | 67.1 | 74.3 | |
| multilingual-e5-large-instructSize=0.6B2026.01 | 63.2 | 55.1 | 80.1 | 64.9 | 50.8 | -0.4 | 22.9 | 80.9 | 62.6 | 57.1 | 76.8 | |
| mult.-e5-l-instr.Params=560M, Dim=1024, Type=instruction-tuned2026.02 | 63.2 | 55.1 | 80.1 | 64.9 | 50.8 | -0.4 | 22.9 | 80.9 | 62.6 | 57.1 | 76.8 | |
| gte-Qwen2-7b-instructSize=7B2026.01 | 62.5 | 55.9 | 73.9 | 61.6 | 52.8 | 4.9 | 25.5 | 85.1 | 65.6 | 60.1 | 74 | |
| Cohere-embed-multilingual-v3.02026.01 | 61.1 | 53.2 | 70.5 | 63 | 46.9 | -1.9 | 22.7 | 79.9 | 64.1 | 59.2 | 74.8 | |
| Qwen3-0.6B (generic)Params=596M, Dim=1024, Type=generic2026.02 | 61.1 | 54.3 | 72.2 | 58.4 | 49.8 | 3.8 | 21.1 | 80.8 | 62.2 | 64.2 | 76.2 | |
| Gemma-300MParams=308M, Dim=7682026.02 | 61.1 | 54.3 | 64.4 | 60.9 | 51.2 | 5.6 | 24.8 | 81.4 | 63.2 | 62.5 | 74.7 | |
| GritLM-7BSize=7B2026.01 | 60.9 | 53.7 | 70.5 | 61.8 | 49.8 | 3.5 | 22.8 | 80.9 | 63.8 | 58.3 | 73.3 | |
| KaLM-mini-v2.5Params=494M, Dim=8962026.02 | 60.1 | 52.4 | 65 | 61.2 | 53.8 | -0.6 | 21 | 79.1 | 62.4 | 57.9 | 71.9 | |
| BGE-M3Size=0.6B2026.01 | 59.6 | 52.2 | 79.1 | 60.4 | 40.9 | -3.1 | 20.1 | 80.8 | 62.8 | 54.6 | 74.1 | |
| gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instructSize=1.5B2026.01 | 59.5 | 52.7 | 62.5 | 58.3 | 52.1 | 0.74 | 24 | 81.6 | 62.6 | 60.8 | 71.6 | |
| text-embedding-3-large2026.01 | 58.9 | 51.4 | 62.2 | 60.3 | 46.9 | -2.7 | 22 | 79.2 | 63.9 | 59.3 | 71.7 | |
| voyage-4-nanoParams=480M, Dim=20482026.02 | 58.9 | 52 | 64.1 | 58.6 | 45.4 | 3.5 | 20.1 | 76.3 | 63.1 | 63.6 | 73 | |
| jina-v3Params=572M, Dim=10242026.02 | 58.4 | 50.7 | 65.3 | 58.8 | 45.6 | -1.3 | 18.4 | 79.3 | 57.1 | 55.8 | 77.1 | |
| jina-v4Params=3.8B, Dim=20482026.02 | 58.17 | 51.55 | 62.4 | 55.2 | 44 | 0.7 | 19.3 | 79.3 | 62.2 | 66.4 | 74.4 | |
| snowflake-l-v2Params=568M, Dim=10242026.02 | 57 | 50 | 64.1 | 57.4 | 42.8 | -2.5 | 18.9 | 76.7 | 63.7 | 58.4 | 70.1 | |
| NV-Embed-v2Size=7B2026.01 | 56.3 | 49.6 | 57.8 | 57.3 | 40.8 | 1 | 18.6 | 78.9 | 63.8 | 56.7 | 71.1 |