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gte-multilingual-base

by Alibaba-NLP Alibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base

The gte-multilingual-base model is the latest in the GTE (General Text Embedding) family of models, featuring several key attributes: Paper: mGTE: Generalized Long-Context Text Representation and Reranking Models for Multilingual Text Retrieval - It is…

Parameters305M
Context8,192
Weights610.8 MB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads1.4M

Runs On

What it takes to serve gte-multilingual-base (305M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.3 GB 0.4 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.2 GB 0.2 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on gte-multilingual-base

Embedding the documents behind a retrieval system is where we would put this one. At 16-bit the weights take 0.6 GB and working memory 0.7 GB, so hardware is not the decision. The cheapest setup in our data, one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour on-demand, would sit well under one percent occupied. The 8,192-token window covers long passages, and a 250,048-entry vocabulary says it was built for many languages.

Apache 2.0 permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, so an index built from it is yours to sell access to, as long as the notices travel with any copy. Before committing, read the paper trail: arXiv:2407.19669 describes the model, and the file also points at arXiv:2402.03216, the BGE-M3 paper, and arXiv:2104.08663, the BEIR benchmark. No host prices appear in the SAVRN Index for this model; running it yourself is the price.

Model Card

By Alibaba-NLP, published under apache-2.0, revision 9bbca17d9273.

The gte-multilingual-base model is the latest in the GTE (General Text Embedding) family of models, featuring several key attributes:

  • High Performance: Achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) results in multilingual retrieval tasks and multi-task representation model evaluations when compared to models of similar size.
  • Training Architecture: Trained using an encoder-only transformers architecture, resulting in a smaller model size. Unlike previous models based on decode-only LLM architecture (e.g., gte-qwen2-1.5b-instruct), this model has lower hardware requirements for inference, offering a 10x increase in inference speed.
  • Long Context: Supports text lengths up to 8192 tokens.
  • Multilingual Capability: Supports over 70 languages.
  • Elastic Dense Embedding: Support elastic output dense representation while maintaining the effectiveness of downstream tasks, which significantly reduces storage costs and improves execution efficiency.
  • Sparse Vectors: In addition to dense representations, it can also generate sparse vectors.

Paper: mGTE: Generalized Long-Context Text Representation and Reranking Models for Multilingual Text Retrieval

Model Information

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Configuration

Architecture
NewModel, NewForTokenClassification
Context length (tokens)
8,192
Layers
12
Hidden size
768
Feed-forward size
3,072
Attention heads
12
Vocabulary size
250,048
RoPE base
20,000
Stored precision
float16
Model type
new

Identity and Version

Repository
Alibaba-NLP/gte-multilingual-base
Publisher
Alibaba-NLP
Task
Sentence similarity
Modality
Text
Library
sentence-transformers
Parameters
305M parameters
Languages
af, ar, az, be, bg, bn, ca, ceb
Revision
9bbca17d9273fd0d03d5725c7a4b0f6b45142062
First published
2024-07-20
Last updated
2025-07-05

Files and Weights

16 files, 629.6 MB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 610.8 MB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 610.8 MB
Configuration6 files · 9.3 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 17.1 MB
Documentation1 file · 124.5 KB
Other5 files · 1.7 MB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights610.8 MB f5a35a10faa5
1_Pooling/config.jsonConfiguration190 B
config.jsonConfiguration1.4 KB
modules.jsonConfiguration349 B
scripts/gte_embedding.pyConfiguration6.3 KB
sentence_bert_config.jsonConfiguration55 B
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration964 B
README.mdDocumentation124.5 KB
images/mgte-loco.pngOther418.2 KB
images/mgte-mldr.pngOther371.7 KB
images/mgte-mteb.pngOther281.4 KB
images/mgte-reranker.pngOther238.5 KB
images/mgte-retrieval.pngOther356.2 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer17.1 MB f59925fcb90c
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer1.1 KB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
610.8 MB
Download from Alibaba-NLP

Released by Alibaba-NLP through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

Evaluations

Each result is shown as reported, with the conditions its reporter stated. None is a SAVRN measurement. A comparison lines two results up only when their configuration, unit and setup are all stated and identical.

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
MTEB 8TagsClustering Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 33.6668 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AFQMC Configuration defaultTask STSMetric cos_sim_spearmanComparison conditions not established 43.5476 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ATEC Configuration defaultTask STSMetric cos_sim_spearmanComparison conditions not established 48.9119 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AllegroReviews Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 41.6899 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AlloProfClusteringP2P Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 54.2024 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AlloProfClusteringS2S Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 44.3408 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AlloprofReranking Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mapComparison conditions not established 64.915 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AlloprofRetrieval Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established 53.638 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 75.9552 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 80.7176 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (de) Configuration deTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 40.108 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 43.642 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (es) Configuration esTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 40.17 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (fr) Configuration frTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 39.568 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (ja) Configuration jaTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 35.75 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (zh) Configuration zhTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 33.342 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established 58.231 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArguAna-PL Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established 53.166 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 46.019 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 41.0663 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mapComparison conditions not established 61.8751 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB BIOSSES Configuration defaultTask STSMetric cos_sim_spearmanComparison conditions not established 81.2145 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB BQ Configuration defaultTask STSMetric cos_sim_spearmanComparison conditions not established 51.7159 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB BSARDRetrieval Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established 26.115 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB BUCC (de-en) Configuration de-enTask BitextMiningMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 98.6169 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB BUCC (fr-en) Configuration fr-enTask BitextMiningMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 97.896 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB BUCC (ru-en) Configuration ru-enTask BitextMiningMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 97.1239 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB BUCC (zh-en) Configuration zh-enTask BitextMiningMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 98.1569 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB Banking77Classification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 85.3604 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 37.5904 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 34.2147 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB CBD Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 62.52 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB CDSC-E Configuration defaultTask PairClassificationMetric cos_sim_apComparison conditions not established 74.9013 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB CDSC-R Configuration defaultTask STSMetric cos_sim_spearmanComparison conditions not established 90.3073 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB CLSClusteringP2P Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 37.9485 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB CLSClusteringS2S Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 38.1196 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB CMedQAv1 Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mapComparison conditions not established 86.1095 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB CMedQAv2 Configuration defaultTask RerankingMetric mapComparison conditions not established 87.2804 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established 47.099 Alibaba-NLP
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MTEB CQADupstackEnglishRetrieval Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established 45.973 Alibaba-NLP
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Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published610.8 MB
16-bit0.6 GB
8-bit0.3 GB
4-bit0.2 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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Questions About gte-multilingual-base

How much GPU memory does gte-multilingual-base need?

About 0.7 GB at 16-bit and 0.2 GB at 4-bit: the weights (305M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run gte-multilingual-base on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use gte-multilingual-base commercially?

Yes. gte-multilingual-base is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

What is gte-multilingual-base's context length?

8,192 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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