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snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

by Snowflake Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

12/11/2024: Release of Technical Report - 12/04/2024: Release of snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 and snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v2.0 our newest models with multilingual workloads in mind.

Parameters568M
Context8,194
Weights8.3 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads874.2k

Runs On

What it takes to serve snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 (568M 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 1.1 GB 1.4 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.3 GB 0.3 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 snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

Retrieval is the job, the one place in a stack where the model rarely needs its own card. A 16-bit copy of snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 needs 1.4 GB; on the cheapest slot we track, one 192 GB MI300X at $1.85 an hour, that is under one percent of the memory, so it rides beside the generator you already run. The 22 files in the release total 10.6 GB because the weights are stored in float32 and shipped as both safetensors and ONNX, so the download is larger than what you serve.

Apache 2.0 permits commercial use: index customer documents, sell the search, redistribute with the notices intact. Check two things. Context is 8,194 tokens, so the chunking pipeline has to respect that ceiling. And Snowflake built this one for multilingual retrieval, with a 250,002-entry vocabulary; if your corpus is English only, read the technical report at arXiv:2412.04506 before committing.

Model Card

By Snowflake, published under apache-2.0, revision ac6544c8a46e.

Snowflake's Arctic-embed-l-v2.0

News | Models | Usage | Evaluation | Contact | FAQ License | Acknowledgement

News

Models

Snowflake arctic-embed-l-v2.0 is the newest addition to the suite of embedding models Snowflake has released optimizing for retrieval performance and inference efficiency. Arctic Embed 2.0 introduces a new standard for multilingual embedding models, combining high-quality multilingual text retrieval without sacrificing performance in English. Released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, Arctic Embed 2.0 is ideal for applications that demand reliable, enterprise-grade multilingual search and retrieval at scale.

Key Features:

Read the full model card (897 words)

Configuration

Architecture
XLMRobertaModel
Context length (tokens)
8,194
Layers
24
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
4,096
Attention heads
16
Vocabulary size
250,002
Stored precision
float32
Model type
xlm-roberta

Identity and Version

Repository
Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0
Publisher
Snowflake
Task
Sentence similarity
Modality
Text
Library
sentence-transformers
Parameters
568M parameters
Languages
af, ar, az, be, bg, bn, ca, ceb
Revision
ac6544c8a46e00af67e330e85a9028c66b8cfd9a
First published
2024-11-08
Last updated
2025-07-28

Files and Weights

22 files, 10.6 GB in total. The weights are 10 files totalling 8.3 GB in onnx, safetensors.

Weights10 files · 8.3 GB
Configuration5 files · 2.6 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 17.1 MB
Documentation2 files · 501.2 KB
Other2 files · 2.3 GB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights2.3 GB 21bf1a120b1c
onnx/model.onnxWeights702.3 KB f74aa79745cc
onnx/model_O4.onnxWeights452.3 KB ae7e73a69d69
onnx/model_bnb4.onnxWeights1.2 GB 50d4fae23d8d
onnx/model_fp16.onnxWeights1.1 GB 0b6846bcf4c0
onnx/model_int8.onnxWeights569.7 MB 4b164a8bd09d
onnx/model_q4.onnxWeights1.2 GB ec3ba7101ef4
onnx/model_q4f16.onnxWeights700.1 MB 6a449f29654a
onnx/model_quantized.onnxWeights569.7 MB 4b164a8bd09d
onnx/model_uint8.onnxWeights569.7 MB 8712ea862fbb
1_Pooling/config.jsonConfiguration297 B
config.jsonConfiguration818 B
config_sentence_transformers.jsonConfiguration203 B
modules.jsonConfiguration349 B
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration964 B
README.MDDocumentation250.2 KB
README.mdDocumentation251.0 KB
onnx/model.onnx_dataOther2.3 GB fe7d75ff258f
sentencepiece.bpe.modelOther5.1 MB cfc8146abe2a
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer17.1 MB 39feb9863a37
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer1.3 KB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
8.3 GB
Download from Snowflake

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

Built From

  • Described by arXiv:2412.04506

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 65.597 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 29.7621 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric ap_weightedComparison conditions not established 29.7621 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 60.2443 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1_weightedComparison conditions not established 68.9975 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric main_scoreComparison conditions not established 65.597 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext) Configuration en-extTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 67.039 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext) Configuration en-extTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 17.9914 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext) Configuration en-extTask ClassificationMetric ap_weightedComparison conditions not established 17.9914 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext) Configuration en-extTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 55.1806 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext) Configuration en-extTask ClassificationMetric f1_weightedComparison conditions not established 73.4115 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext) Configuration en-extTask ClassificationMetric main_scoreComparison conditions not established 67.039 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default) Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 74.2565 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default) Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 68.7595 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default) Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric ap_weightedComparison conditions not established 68.7595 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default) Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 74.0291 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default) Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric f1_weightedComparison conditions not established 74.0291 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (default) Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric main_scoreComparison conditions not established 74.2565 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 34.946 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 34.2853 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1_weightedComparison conditions not established 34.2853 Snowflake
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric main_scoreComparison conditions not established 34.946 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1Comparison conditions not established 33.286 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_10Comparison conditions not established 50.046 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_100Comparison conditions not established 50.708 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 50.712 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_20Comparison conditions not established 50.56 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_3Comparison conditions not established 45.14 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_5Comparison conditions not established 47.939 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1Comparison conditions not established 33.286 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established 59.146 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_100Comparison conditions not established 61.784 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 61.845 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_20Comparison conditions not established 60.898 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_3Comparison conditions not established 49.051 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_5Comparison conditions not established 54.107 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_1Comparison conditions not established 33.286 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_3Comparison conditions not established 60.384 Snowflake
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MTEB ArguAna (default) Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_5Comparison conditions not established 72.688 Snowflake
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mteb/arguana Task ArguAna_default_testMetric ArguAna_default_testSetup Obtained using MTEB v1.18.0Comparison conditions not established 59.11 Obtained using MTEB v1.18.0
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-05

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published8.3 GB
16-bit1.1 GB
8-bit0.6 GB
4-bit0.3 GB

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

Questions About snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

How much GPU memory does snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 need?

About 1.4 GB at 16-bit and 0.3 GB at 4-bit: the weights (568M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 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 snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 commercially?

Yes. snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 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 snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0's context length?

8,194 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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