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mxbai-embed-large-v1

by Mixedbread mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1

Here, we provide several ways to produce sentence embeddings. Please note that you have to provide the prompt Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: for query if you want to use it for retrieval. Besides that you don't need any prompt.

Parameters335M
Context512
Weights5.4 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads2.5M

Runs On

What it takes to serve mxbai-embed-large-v1 (335M 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 0.7 GB 0.8 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 mxbai-embed-large-v1

Every query you send this embedding model for retrieval needs the publisher's search prompt ahead of it; passages need none. Sizing is easy: 335M parameters, 0.8 GB of memory at 16-bit, and at $1.85 per hour on-demand for a single 192 GB MI300X, our cheapest listed option, the card spends most of its life waiting for text. The 512 token context is the practical limit, a short passage per call; plan your chunking around it.

Deployment is simple under Apache 2.0: commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted, you keep the license, copyright notices and any NOTICE file, state significant changes, and contributors give an express patent grant. Before committing, note the download is 21 files and 5.36 GB across safetensors, gguf, onnx and openvino, so pull only what your stack reads, and that the evaluations are publisher-reported MTEB classification numbers; run your own retrieval set first.

Model Card

By Mixedbread, published under apache-2.0, revision b33106f585b9.



The crispy sentence embedding family from Mixedbread.

Looking for a simple end-to-end retrieval solution? Meet Omni, our multimodal and multilingual model.Get in touch for access.

mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1

Here, we provide several ways to produce sentence embeddings. Please note that you have to provide the prompt Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: for query if you want to use it for retrieval. Besides that you don't need any prompt. Our model also supports Matryoshka Representation Learning and binary quantization.

Quickstart

Here, we provide several ways to produce sentence embeddings. Please note that you have to provide the prompt Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: for query if you want to use it for retrieval. Besides that you don't need any prompt.

sentence-transformers

python -m pip install -U sentence-transformers

Read the full model card (1,071 words)

Configuration

Architecture
BertModel
Context length (tokens)
512
Layers
24
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
4,096
Attention heads
16
Vocabulary size
30,522
Stored precision
float16
Model type
bert

Identity and Version

Repository
mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1
Publisher
Mixedbread
Task
Feature extraction
Modality
Text
Library
sentence-transformers
Parameters
335M parameters
Languages
en
Revision
b33106f585b9ce46904ad7443a3b52b7a63e231c
First published
2024-03-07
Last updated
2026-01-23

Files and Weights

21 files, 5.4 GB in total. The weights are 7 files totalling 5.4 GB in bin, gguf, onnx, safetensors.

Weights7 files · 5.4 GB
Configuration6 files · 2.2 KB
Tokenizer3 files · 944.1 KB
Documentation2 files · 125.0 KB
Other2 files · 2.0 MB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
gguf/mxbai-embed-large-v1-f16.ggufWeights669.6 MB 819c2adf5ce6
model.safetensorsWeights670.3 MB 36bfa45da00e
onnx/model.onnxWeights1.3 GB adb53ed475fa
onnx/model_fp16.onnxWeights668.8 MB b08af11a6045
onnx/model_quantized.onnxWeights337.0 MB 11bda26d2ee7
openvino/openvino_model.binWeights1.3 GB d2715fe5d778
openvino/openvino_model_qint8_quantized.binWeights336.8 MB 61df334e52da
1_Pooling/config.jsonConfiguration297 B
config.jsonConfiguration677 B
config_sentence_transformers.jsonConfiguration266 B
modules.jsonConfiguration229 B
sentence_bert_config.jsonConfiguration53 B
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration695 B
LICENSEDocumentation10.8 KB
README.mdDocumentation114.3 KB
openvino/openvino_model.xmlOther707.3 KB
openvino/openvino_model_qint8_quantized.xmlOther1.3 MB
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer711.4 KB
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer1.2 KB
vocab.txtTokenizer231.5 KB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
5.4 GB
Download from Mixedbread

Released by Mixedbread through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

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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 AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 75.0448 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 37.7362 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 68.9274 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 93.8403 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 90.9319 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 93.8298 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 49.184 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 48.7416 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1Comparison conditions not established 41.252 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_10Comparison conditions not established 57.778 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_100Comparison conditions not established 58.233 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 58.237 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_3Comparison conditions not established 53.45 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_5Comparison conditions not established 56.376 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1Comparison conditions not established 41.679 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_10Comparison conditions not established 57.927 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_100Comparison conditions not established 58.389 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 58.392 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_3Comparison conditions not established 53.651 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_5Comparison conditions not established 56.521 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1Comparison conditions not established 41.252 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established 66.018 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_100Comparison conditions not established 67.774 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 67.844 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_3Comparison conditions not established 57.372 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_5Comparison conditions not established 62.646 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_1Comparison conditions not established 41.252 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_10Comparison conditions not established 9.189 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_100Comparison conditions not established 0.991 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 0.1 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_3Comparison conditions not established 22.902 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_5Comparison conditions not established 16.302 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_1Comparison conditions not established 41.252 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_10Comparison conditions not established 91.892 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_100Comparison conditions not established 99.147 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 99.644 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_3Comparison conditions not established 68.706 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_5Comparison conditions not established 81.508 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 48.9729 mixedbread-ai
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MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established 42.9807 mixedbread-ai
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Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published5.4 GB
16-bit0.7 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 mxbai-embed-large-v1

How much GPU memory does mxbai-embed-large-v1 need?

About 0.8 GB at 16-bit and 0.2 GB at 4-bit: the weights (335M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run mxbai-embed-large-v1 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 mxbai-embed-large-v1 commercially?

Yes. mxbai-embed-large-v1 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 mxbai-embed-large-v1's context length?

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

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