Text and multimodal embeddings
20
Models
3
Benchmarks
12
Providers
17
Open Weight
18
Deployable Now
16 self-host
4
Structured benchmark-backed rows
2
Signal-backed rows without full normalized tables
0
Benchmark-expected rows still catching up
| # | Model | Economic Footprint | Quality | Params | SWE-Bench | Aider Polyglot | GAIA | $/M In | Speed | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Gemini Embedding 001 |
| 30.5 |
| 22.7 |
| Undisclosed |
| 42.4 |
| 83.1 |
| — |
$1.25/M Cheapest verified |
| — |
4 | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B Qwen Ready to UseStructured | 29.8 | 45.8 | 600M | 42.4 | 8.0 | 44.2 | Free Free | — |
3 | embeddinggemma-300m | 26.9 | 46.2 | 300M | 42.4 | — | — | Free Free | — |
10 | Embedding 3 Large OpenAI Not standardized | 22.1 | 0.0 | Undisclosed | — | — | — | $0.1300/M Cheapest verified | — |
6 | Embedding 3 Small OpenAI Not standardized | 22.0 | 0.0 | Undisclosed | — | — | — | $0.0200/M Cheapest verified | — |
5 | harrier-oss-v1-0.6b Microsoft Open WeightsProvider-reported* | 14.7 | 43.6 | 600M | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
9 | harrier-oss-v1-270m Microsoft Open WeightsProvider-reported* | 14.3 | 42.3 | 270M | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
2 | pplx-embed-v1-0.6b perplexity-ai Open WeightsStructured | — | — | 600M | 42.4 | — | — | Free Free | — |
7 | z-image-turbo-flow-dpo F16 Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
11 | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 sentence-transformers Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
12 | bge-m3 BAAI Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
13 | jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small jinaai Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
14 | granite-speech-4.1-2b-nar ibm-granite Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | 2B | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
15 | Reason-ModernColBERT lightonai Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
16 | granite-embedding-311m-multilingual-r2 ibm-granite Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | 311M | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
17 | jina-embeddings-v5-omni-nano jinaai Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
18 | granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2 ibm-granite Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | 97M | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
19 | zembed-1 zeroentropy Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
20 | Agent-ModernColBERT lightonai Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | Free Free | — |
21 | LateOn lightonai Open WeightsNot standardized | — | — | Unknown | — | — | — | Free Free | — |