all-MiniLM-L6-v2, a 23M-parameter sentence-transformers model, was downloaded 177M times on Hugging Face in the last 30 days. That's 38% of all downloads across the 213 open-weight embedding models tracked by the TextModels directory, and more than the next four models combined. Below are all 338 embedding models in the directory: open weights ranked by downloads, then hosted APIs, Ollama builds and the historical models that started it all.

Most "best embedding model" lists rank by benchmark score, like PremAI's ranking by MTEB score, cost and self-hosting. Benchmarks tell you what's best on paper. Downloads tell you what developers actually ship, and the two lists look very different.

The sentence-transformers family's lead has a history. As HackerNoon's overview of embeddings for RAG puts it, "Simply said, the BERT model isn't the best for similarity search." SBERT fixed that by embedding each sentence separately so vectors can be computed once and compared fast, and its descendants still dominate the download charts.

What the download data says

  • Small and old beats big and new. The top two models by downloads, all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (23M params) and BAAI's bge-small-en-v1.5 (33M), are tiny. For most production search, "fast and good enough" wins.
  • The market is concentrated. The top 10 open-weight embedders account for 74% of the 470M monthly downloads in this list.
  • Qwen is the newcomer to watch. Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B is already #9 with 9M monthly downloads, and its 4B and 8B siblings both clear 2.4M.
  • Multilingual is mainstream. Five of the top 12 are multilingual: bge-m3, two paraphrase-multilingual models and two multilingual-e5 models.
  • Vector databases ship their own builds. Qdrant's ONNX conversions and sparse models appear nine times, which shows how many teams get embeddings through their database instead of picking a model directly.

How this list was built

Everything comes from the TextModels directory's Embedding filter (338 models) as of November 11, 2026. Hugging Face entries are ranked by 30-day downloads pulled from the Hugging Face API. "Verified" means the TextModels directory fetched and confirmed that model's metrics per model. Hosted API models have no public download counts, so they're grouped by provider, alphabetically. Some hosted entries, like OpenAI's 001-series search models, are long retired. They stay in the list because people still search for them when migrating old pipelines.

Part 1: 213 open-weight embedding models on Hugging Face, ranked by 30-day downloads

  1. all-MiniLM-L6-v2 by sentence-transformers: 177M downloads/30d, 23M params, Apache 2.0 (Verified)
  2. bge-small-en-v1.5 by BAAI: 47.1M downloads/30d, 33M params, MIT (Verified)
  3. bge-m3 by BAAI: 29.3M downloads/30d, 568M params, MIT (Verified)
  4. paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 by sentence-transformers: 26.9M downloads/30d, 118M params, Apache 2.0 (Verified)
  5. all-mpnet-base-v2 by sentence-transformers: 20.5M downloads/30d, 109M params, Apache 2.0 (Verified)
  6. nomic-embed-text-v1.5 by nomic-ai: 11.9M downloads/30d, 137M params, Apache 2.0 (Verified)
  7. multilingual-e5-small by intfloat: 9.4M downloads/30d, 118M params
  8. paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 by sentence-transformers: 9.1M downloads/30d, 278M params
  9. Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B by Qwen: 9M downloads/30d, 596M params, Apache 2.0 (Verified)
  10. bge-base-en-v1.5 by BAAI: 8.4M downloads/30d, 109M params
  11. bge-large-en-v1.5 by BAAI: 8.1M downloads/30d, 335M params, MIT (Verified)
  12. multilingual-e5-large by intfloat: 7.1M downloads/30d, 560M params, MIT (Verified)
  13. granite-embedding-small-english-r2 by ibm-granite: 6.8M downloads/30d, 48M params
  14. multilingual-e5-base by intfloat: 4.9M downloads/30d, 278M params
  15. all-MiniLM-L6-v2 by Xenova: 4.5M downloads/30d
  16. snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 by Snowflake: 3.8M downloads/30d, 568M params
  17. bge-small-zh-v1.5 by BAAI: 3.1M downloads/30d, 24M params
  18. bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 by datasocietyco: 2.9M downloads/30d, 109M params
  19. gte-small by thenlper: 2.5M downloads/30d, 33M params
  20. bge-base-en-v1.5 by Xenova: 2.5M downloads/30d
  21. all-MiniLM-L12-v2 by sentence-transformers: 2.5M downloads/30d, 33M params
  22. Qwen3-Embedding-4B by Qwen: 2.5M downloads/30d, 4B params
  23. all-distilroberta-v1 by sentence-transformers: 2.4M downloads/30d, 82M params
  24. Qwen3-Embedding-8B by Qwen: 2.4M downloads/30d, 7.6B params
  25. mxbai-embed-large-v1 by mixedbread-ai: 2.3M downloads/30d, 335M params
  26. bge-small-en-v1.5-onnx-Q by Qdrant: 2M downloads/30d
  27. paraphrase-mpnet-base-v2 by sentence-transformers: 1.9M downloads/30d, 109M params
  28. multilingual-e5-large-instruct by intfloat: 1.7M downloads/30d, 560M params
  29. all-MiniLM-L6-v2-onnx by Qdrant: 1.6M downloads/30d
  30. paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 by sentence-transformers: 1.5M downloads/30d, 23M params
  31. multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1 by sentence-transformers: 1.5M downloads/30d, 109M params
  32. jina-embeddings-v3 by jinaai: 1.5M downloads/30d, 572M params, CC BY-NC 4.0 (Verified)
  33. SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext by cambridgeltl: 1.4M downloads/30d, 109M params
  34. ko-sroberta-multitask by jhgan: 1.4M downloads/30d, 111M params
  35. multilingual-e5-large-onnx by Qdrant: 1.2M downloads/30d
  36. jina-embeddings-v2-small-en by jinaai: 1.2M downloads/30d, 33M params
  37. embeddinggemma-300m by google: 1.2M downloads/30d, 303M params, Gemma (Verified)
  38. e5-small-v2 by intfloat: 1.1M downloads/30d, 33M params
  39. e5-base-v2 by intfloat: 1M downloads/30d, 109M params
  40. UAE-Large-V1 by WhereIsAI: 1M downloads/30d, 335M params
  41. sup-SimCSE-VietNamese-phobert-base by VoVanPhuc: 1M downloads/30d, 136M params
  42. LaBSE by sentence-transformers: 986.3K downloads/30d, 471M params
  43. vietnamese-bi-encoder by bkai-foundation-models: 983.4K downloads/30d, 135M params
  44. e5-base by intfloat: 946.9K downloads/30d, 109M params
  45. paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2 by sentence-transformers: 945K downloads/30d, 17M params
  46. bm25 by Qdrant: 913K downloads/30d
  47. gte-multilingual-base by Alibaba-NLP: 891.3K downloads/30d, 305M params
  48. nomic-embed-text-v1 by nomic-ai: 882.5K downloads/30d, 137M params
  49. distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2 by sentence-transformers: 869.3K downloads/30d, 135M params
  50. bge-small-en-v1.5 by Xenova: 851.3K downloads/30d
  51. text2vec-base-chinese by shibing624: 845.1K downloads/30d, 102M params
  52. pubmedbert-base-embeddings by NeuML: 812.2K downloads/30d, 109M params
  53. ruri-v3-310m by cl-nagoya: 745.4K downloads/30d, 315M params
  54. e5-large-v2 by intfloat: 733.6K downloads/30d, 335M params
  55. nomic-embed-text-v2-moe by nomic-ai: 720.4K downloads/30d, 475M params
  56. FRIDA by ai-forever: 692.8K downloads/30d, 823M params
  57. multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1 by sentence-transformers: 659.9K downloads/30d, 23M params
  58. specter2_base by allenai: 658.7K downloads/30d
  59. embeddinggemma-300m-ONNX by onnx-community: 635.7K downloads/30d
  60. all-roberta-large-v1 by sentence-transformers: 610.9K downloads/30d, 355M params
  61. nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF by nomic-ai: 574.1K downloads/30d
  62. paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-onnx-Q by Qdrant: 569.5K downloads/30d
  63. plamo-embedding-1b by pfnet: 567.5K downloads/30d, 1.1B params
  64. gte-large by thenlper: 555.4K downloads/30d, 335M params
  65. snowflake-arctic-embed-xs by Snowflake: 533.9K downloads/30d, 23M params
  66. msmarco-bert-base-dot-v5 by sentence-transformers: 526.7K downloads/30d, 109M params
  67. langcache-embed-v1 by redis: 525.5K downloads/30d, 149M params
  68. bert-base-turkish-cased-mean-nli-stsb-tr by emrecan: 520.6K downloads/30d, 111M params
  69. deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1 by mixedbread-ai: 514.5K downloads/30d, 487M params
  70. snowflake-arctic-embed-l by Snowflake: 506.6K downloads/30d, 334M params
  71. bge-small-en-v1.5 by unsloth: 469.6K downloads/30d, 33M params
  72. rubert-tiny2 by cointegrated: 467.7K downloads/30d, 29M params
  73. multilingual-e5-small by Xenova: 457.8K downloads/30d
  74. gte-base-en-v1.5 by Alibaba-NLP: 452.6K downloads/30d, 137M params
  75. nli-mpnet-base-v2 by sentence-transformers: 452K downloads/30d, 109M params
  76. llama2-embedding-1b-8k by mesolitica: 443.8K downloads/30d, 947M params
  77. S-PubMedBert-MedQuAD by TimKond: 436.7K downloads/30d, 109M params
  78. efficient-splade-VI-BT-large-doc by naver: 427K downloads/30d
  79. LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp by McGill-NLP: 405.6K downloads/30d, 8B params
  80. BioLORD-2023 by FremyCompany: 397.1K downloads/30d, 109M params
  81. snowflake-arctic-embed-m by Snowflake: 387.3K downloads/30d, 109M params
  82. jina-embeddings-v2-base-en by jinaai: 356.8K downloads/30d, 137M params
  83. llama-nemotron-embed-1b-v2 by nvidia: 347.3K downloads/30d, 1.2B params
  84. paraphrase-albert-small-v2 by sentence-transformers: 340K downloads/30d, 12M params
  85. nomic-embed-code by nomic-ai: 336K downloads/30d, 7.1B params
  86. bge-large-zh-v1.5 by BAAI: 334.9K downloads/30d
  87. Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 by nvidia: 324.8K downloads/30d, 1.1B params
  88. paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 by Xenova: 314.8K downloads/30d
  89. Solon-embeddings-large-0.1 by OrdalieTech: 311.4K downloads/30d, 560M params
  90. bert-base-nli-mean-tokens by sentence-transformers: 308.2K downloads/30d, 109M params
  91. USER-bge-m3 by deepvk: 288.6K downloads/30d, 359M params
  92. multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-dot-v1 by sentence-transformers: 286.2K downloads/30d, 23M params
  93. msmarco-MiniLM-L6-v3 by sentence-transformers: 284.3K downloads/30d, 23M params
  94. e5-large by intfloat: 263.5K downloads/30d, 335M params
  95. all_miniLM_L6_v2_with_attentions by Qdrant: 250.4K downloads/30d
  96. indobert-base-p1 by indobenchmark: 247.8K downloads/30d
  97. KURE-v1 by nlpai-lab: 245.5K downloads/30d, 568M params
  98. mmlw-retrieval-roberta-large by sdadas: 236K downloads/30d, 435M params
  99. sentence-transformers-alephbert by imvladikon: 235.4K downloads/30d
  100. dragon-multiturn-query-encoder by nvidia: 231K downloads/30d
  101. dragon-multiturn-context-encoder by nvidia: 230.8K downloads/30d
  102. codebert-base by microsoft: 227.3K downloads/30d
  103. msmarco-distilbert-base-tas-b by sentence-transformers: 226.2K downloads/30d, 66M params
  104. harrier-oss-v1-0.6b by microsoft: 222K downloads/30d, 596M params
  105. bge-small-en by BAAI: 219.4K downloads/30d, 33M params
  106. mxbai-embed-large-v1-gguf by ChristianAzinn: 215.3K downloads/30d
  107. bart-base by facebook: 213.8K downloads/30d, 139M params
  108. sbert-legal-xlm-roberta-base by Stern5497: 205.6K downloads/30d
  109. snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0-ko by dragonkue: 205.5K downloads/30d, 568M params
  110. granite-embedding-125m-english by ibm-granite: 205.1K downloads/30d, 125M params
  111. SapBERT-UMLS-2020AB-all-lang-from-XLMR by cambridgeltl: 202.1K downloads/30d, 278M params
  112. LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp-supervised by McGill-NLP: 196.5K downloads/30d, 8B params
  113. instructor-large by hkunlp: 189.7K downloads/30d
  114. paraphrase-xlm-r-multilingual-v1 by sentence-transformers: 181.4K downloads/30d, 278M params
  115. German_Semantic_STS_V2 by aari1995: 180.9K downloads/30d, 336M params
  116. paraphrase-MiniLM-L12-v2 by sentence-transformers: 174.9K downloads/30d, 33M params
  117. msmarco-MiniLM-L12-cos-v5 by sentence-transformers: 174.5K downloads/30d, 33M params
  118. All-MiniLM-L6-v2-Embedding-GGUF by second-state: 169.3K downloads/30d
  119. unixcoder-base by microsoft: 167.4K downloads/30d
  120. all-MiniLM-L6-v2-GGUF by leliuga: 165.5K downloads/30d
  121. distilbert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens by sentence-transformers: 156.4K downloads/30d, 66M params
  122. multi-qa-mpnet-base-cos-v1 by sentence-transformers: 153.1K downloads/30d, 109M params
  123. bge-base-en-v1.5-onnx-Q by Qdrant: 152.7K downloads/30d
  124. paraphrase-multilingual-minilm-l12-v3-mn by gmunkhtur: 151.7K downloads/30d, 118M params
  125. gte-base by thenlper: 151K downloads/30d, 109M params
  126. jina-embeddings-v2-base-code by jinaai: 146.5K downloads/30d, 161M params
  127. BGE-m3-ko by dragonkue: 143K downloads/30d, 568M params
  128. ModernBERT-base-msmarco by joe32140: 141K downloads/30d, 149M params
  129. Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 by nvidia: 138.9K downloads/30d, 8B params
  130. S-PubMedBert-MS-MARCO by pritamdeka: 138.5K downloads/30d
  131. canine-c by google: 136.6K downloads/30d, 132M params
  132. sentence-t5-base by sentence-transformers: 131.2K downloads/30d, 110M params
  133. gte-modernbert-base by Alibaba-NLP: 127.3K downloads/30d, 149M params
  134. ruri-v3-30m by cl-nagoya: 125.6K downloads/30d, 37M params
  135. mxbai-embed-2d-large-v1 by mixedbread-ai: 120.3K downloads/30d, 335M params
  136. snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v1.5 by Snowflake: 116.5K downloads/30d, 109M params
  137. modernbert-embed-base by nomic-ai: 115.1K downloads/30d, 149M params
  138. all-indo-e5-small-v4 by LazarusNLP: 114.2K downloads/30d, 118M params
  139. gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct by Alibaba-NLP: 111.5K downloads/30d, 1.8B params
  140. harrier-oss-v1-270m by microsoft: 105.2K downloads/30d, 268M params
  141. GIST-Embedding-v0 by avsolatorio: 104.5K downloads/30d, 109M params
  142. bart-large by facebook: 103.5K downloads/30d
  143. herbert-base-cased by allegro: 103.4K downloads/30d
  144. e5-base-multilingual-4096 by efederici: 98.5K downloads/30d
  145. voyage-4-nano by voyageai: 93.4K downloads/30d, 346M params
  146. ko-sbert-nli by jhgan: 91.4K downloads/30d
  147. GIST-all-MiniLM-L6-v2 by avsolatorio: 90.9K downloads/30d, 23M params
  148. jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-retrieval by jinaai: 89.1K downloads/30d, 596M params
  149. bge-m3-spa-law-qa by littlejohn-ai: 87.8K downloads/30d, 568M params
  150. vietnamese-document-embedding by dangvantuan: 86.5K downloads/30d, 305M params
  151. granite-embedding-311m-multilingual-r2 by ibm-granite: 86.5K downloads/30d, 312M params
  152. ko-sbert-sts by jhgan: 83.5K downloads/30d
  153. jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano by jinaai: 83.1K downloads/30d, 212M params
  154. ruri-v3-130m by cl-nagoya: 81K downloads/30d, 132M params
  155. e5-mistral-7b-instruct by intfloat: 79.8K downloads/30d, 7.1B params
  156. jina-embeddings-v5-text-small by jinaai: 79.8K downloads/30d, 596M params
  157. msmarco-distilbert-base-v4 by sentence-transformers: 79K downloads/30d, 66M params
  158. Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-Q4_K_M-GGUF by zenmagnets: 78.3K downloads/30d, 1B params
  159. rubert-base-cased by DeepPavlov: 77.2K downloads/30d
  160. KR-SBERT-V40K-klueNLI-augSTS by snunlp: 76.5K downloads/30d
  161. bge-m3-GGUF by gpustack: 71.8K downloads/30d
  162. GIST-small-Embedding-v0 by avsolatorio: 70.3K downloads/30d, 33M params
  163. st-codesearch-distilroberta-base by flax-sentence-embeddings: 67.6K downloads/30d
  164. Splade_PP_en_v1 by Qdrant: 65.8K downloads/30d
  165. multi-qa-distilbert-dot-v1 by sentence-transformers: 63.8K downloads/30d, 66M params
  166. stsb-xlm-r-multilingual by sentence-transformers: 63.5K downloads/30d, 278M params
  167. embeddinggemma-300m by unsloth: 62K downloads/30d, 303M params
  168. multi-qa-distilbert-cos-v1 by sentence-transformers: 61K downloads/30d, 66M params
  169. lilt-roberta-en-base by SCUT-DLVCLab: 60.4K downloads/30d, 131M params
  170. bge-m3 by Xenova: 56.5K downloads/30d
  171. stella_en_400M_v5 by NovaSearch: 56.1K downloads/30d, 435M params
  172. bge-multilingual-gemma2 by BAAI: 53.1K downloads/30d, 9.2B params
  173. snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v2.0 by Snowflake: 50K downloads/30d, 305M params
  174. sentence-transformer-klue by hunkim: 47.9K downloads/30d
  175. granite-embedding-30m-english by ibm-granite: 46.8K downloads/30d, 30M params
  176. granite-embedding-107m-multilingual by ibm-granite: 45.4K downloads/30d, 107M params
  177. snowflake-arctic-embed-s by Snowflake: 43.6K downloads/30d, 33M params
  178. text2vec-base-chinese-paraphrase by shibing624: 42.3K downloads/30d, 118M params
  179. granite-embedding-278m-multilingual by ibm-granite: 41.6K downloads/30d, 278M params
  180. sentence-bert-swedish-cased by KBLab: 41.3K downloads/30d, 125M params
  181. colbert-bert-tiny by NeuML: 36.4K downloads/30d, 4M params
  182. jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-retrieval by jinaai: 35.6K downloads/30d, 212M params
  183. indo-sentence-bert-base by firqaaa: 32.8K downloads/30d
  184. paraphrase-distilroberta-base-v1 by sentence-transformers: 32.1K downloads/30d, 82M params
  185. bge-large-en-v1.5-onnx by Qdrant: 31.4K downloads/30d
  186. USER-base by deepvk: 29.8K downloads/30d, 124M params
  187. gte-Qwen2-7B-instruct by Alibaba-NLP: 26.9K downloads/30d, 7.6B params
  188. text2vec-base-multilingual by shibing624: 25.3K downloads/30d, 118M params
  189. Giga-Embeddings-instruct-480M-0826 by ai-sage: 22.4K downloads/30d, 484M params
  190. st-polish-paraphrase-from-mpnet by sdadas: 13.8K downloads/30d, 124M params
  191. mdbr-leaf-ir by MongoDB: 13.8K downloads/30d, 23M params
  192. vietnamese-sbert by keepitreal: 11.2K downloads/30d
  193. llama-nemotron-embed-vl-1b-v2 by nvidia: 9.4K downloads/30d, 1.7B params
  194. stsb-roberta-base-v2 by sentence-transformers: 7.4K downloads/30d, 125M params
  195. all-MiniLM-L6-v2-4bit by mlx-community: 7.3K downloads/30d, 23M params
  196. LaBSE by setu4993: 6.8K downloads/30d, 471M params
  197. GLuCoSE-base-ja-v2 by pkshatech: 6K downloads/30d, 133M params
  198. LaBSE-en-ru by cointegrated: 5.6K downloads/30d, 129M params
  199. Octen-Embedding-8B by Octen: 4.6K downloads/30d, 7.6B params
  200. jina-embeddings-v5-text-small-text-matching by jinaai: 4.2K downloads/30d, 596M params
  201. PubMedBERT-mnli-snli-scinli-scitail-mednli-stsb by pritamdeka: 3.8K downloads/30d
  202. Giga-Embeddings-instruct by ai-sage: 3.6K downloads/30d, 3.5B params
  203. Qwen3-Embedding-4B-W4A16-G128 by boboliu: 2.1K downloads/30d, 4B params
  204. serafim-900m-portuguese-pt-sentence-encoder-ir by PORTULAN: 1.4K downloads/30d, 885M params
  205. Solon-embeddings-base-0.1 by OrdalieTech: 685 downloads/30d, 278M params
  206. LEALLA-base by setu4993: 569 downloads/30d, 107M params
  207. sarashina-embedding-v1-1b by sbintuitions: 417 downloads/30d, 1.2B params
  208. minilm-bo-en-sim by khyentsevision: 407 downloads/30d, 23M params
  209. stella_en_400M_v5 by billatsectorflow: 240 downloads/30d, 435M params
  210. OTel-Embedding-109M by farbodtavakkoli: 179 downloads/30d, 109M params
  211. OTel-Embedding-34M by farbodtavakkoli: 123 downloads/30d, 33M params
  212. OTel-Embedding-300M by farbodtavakkoli: 53 downloads/30d, 303M params
  213. OTel-Embedding-33M by farbodtavakkoli: 51 downloads/30d, 33M params

Part 2: 55 hosted embedding APIs, by provider

These are models you call over an API instead of downloading. The list covers current models and retired ones still found in old codebases.

OpenAI (19)

214. text-embedding-3-large

215. text-embedding-3-small

216. text-embedding-ada-002

217. code-search-ada-code-001

218. code-search-ada-text-001

219. code-search-babbage-code-001

220. code-search-babbage-text-001

221. text-search-ada-doc-001

222. text-search-ada-query-001

223. text-search-babbage-doc-001

224. text-search-babbage-query-001

225. text-search-curie-doc-001

226. text-search-curie-query-001

227. text-search-davinci-doc-001

228. text-search-davinci-query-001

229. text-similarity-ada-001

230. text-similarity-babbage-001

231. text-similarity-curie-001

232. text-similarity-davinci-001

Cohere (8)

233. embed-v4.0

234. embed-english-v3.0

235. embed-english-light-v3.0

236. embed-multilingual-v3.0

237. embed-multilingual-light-v3.0

238. embed-english-v2.0

239. embed-english-light-v2.0

240. embed-multilingual-v2.0

Google Vertex AI (8)

241. gemini-embedding-001

242. gemini-embedding-002

243. text-embedding-004

244. text-multilingual-embedding-002

245. textembedding-gecko@003

246. textembedding-gecko@002

247. textembedding-gecko@001

248. textembedding-gecko-multilingual@001

NVIDIA NIM (7)

249. nv-embed-v2

250. nv-embed-v1

251. llama-3.2-nv-embedqa-1b-v2

252. llama-3.2-nv-embedqa-1b-v1

253. nv-embedqa-mistral-7b-v2

254. nv-embedqa-e5-v5

255. nv-embedcode-7b-v1

IBM watsonx / Granite (6)

256. granite-embedding-english-r2

257. granite-embedding-multilingual-r2

258. granite-embedding-30m-english

259. granite-embedding-125m-english

260. granite-embedding-107m-multilingual

261. granite-embedding-278m-multilingual

Amazon Bedrock (4)

262. amazon.titan-embed-text-v2:0

263. amazon.titan-embed-text-v2:1

264. amazon.titan-embed-text-v1

265. amazon.titan-embed-g1-text-02

Mistral AI (3)

266. mistral-embed

267. codestral-embed-2506

268. codestral-embed-2505

Part 3: 20 embedding models you can run locally with Ollama

Ollama doesn't publish download counts, so these are sorted from smallest to largest. Pick the smallest one that clears your quality bar.

269. all-minilm 22m

270. snowflake-arctic-embed 22m

271. granite-embedding 30m (IBM)

272. all-minilm 33m

273. snowflake-arctic-embed 33m

274. snowflake-arctic-embed 110m

275. nomic-embed-text 137m

276. snowflake-arctic-embed 137m

277. granite-embedding 278m (IBM)

278. paraphrase-multilingual 278m

279. embeddinggemma 300m (Google)

280. bge-large 335m

281. mxbai-embed-large 335m

282. snowflake-arctic-embed 335m

283. bge-m3 567m

284. snowflake-arctic-embed2 568m

285. qwen3-embedding 0.6b (Alibaba / Qwen)

286. qwen3-embedding 4b (Alibaba / Qwen)

287. qwen3-embedding 8b (Alibaba / Qwen)

288. nomic-embed-text-v2-moe latest (size not listed)

Part 4: 50 historical embedding models that got us here

Before sentence-transformers there were word vectors, and before RAG there was semantic search. These are the ancestors of everything above.

289. word2vec Skip-gram Google News (Google)

290. word2vec CBOW Google News (Google)

291. GloVe 840B 300d (Stanford NLP)

292. GloVe 42B 300d (Stanford NLP)

293. GloVe 6B 300d (Stanford NLP)

294. GloVe 6B 200d (Stanford NLP)

295. GloVe 6B 100d (Stanford NLP)

296. GloVe 6B 50d (Stanford NLP)

297. GloVe Twitter 27B 200d (Stanford NLP)

298. GloVe Twitter 27B 100d (Stanford NLP)

299. GloVe Twitter 27B 50d (Stanford NLP)

300. GloVe Twitter 27B 25d (Stanford NLP)

301. fastText Common Crawl 300d 2M (Meta AI)

302. fastText Wiki News 300d 1M (Meta AI)

303. ELMo Original 5.5B (Allen Institute for AI)

304. InferSent v1 (Meta AI)

305. Universal Sentence Encoder DAN (Google)

306. Universal Sentence Encoder Transformer (Google)

307. LASER2 (Meta AI)

308. bert-base-uncased (Google)

309. bert-base-cased (Google)

310. bert-large-uncased (Google)

311. bert-large-cased (Google)

312. albert-base-v1 (Google)

313. albert-base-v2 (Google)

314. albert-large-v1 (Google)

315. albert-large-v2 (Google)

316. albert-xlarge-v1 (Google)

317. albert-xlarge-v2 (Google)

318. albert-xxlarge-v1 (Google)

319. albert-xxlarge-v2 (Google)

320. Sentence-BERT Base NLI Mean Tokens (UKP Lab)

321. Sentence-RoBERTa Large NLI STS-B (UKP Lab)...