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FastEmbed
Qdrant's fast on-device embedding library.
About
FastEmbed (qdrant/fastembed, Apache-2.0, ~3.2k stars) is Qdrant's lightweight embedding library: state-of-the-art embeddings running on-device (CPU-friendly) with a tiny footprint.
The 'embeddings without the GPU bill' option — great for RAG pipelines that need speed and simplicity.
What it can do
- On-device embeddings
- CPU-friendly
- Tiny footprint
- Qdrant-native
- Apache-2.0
Setup
pip install fastembed.- Embed text with a few lines of Python.
- Pair with Qdrant (or any vector store).
Prerequisites
Python.
Use cases
datacode
Works with
Generic APIAny agent (.md)
Trust score — 7/10
/10 trustMetrics-checked
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). Apache-2.0, maintained by Qdrant, genuinely useful — but smaller adoption (~3.2k stars). Metrics tier.
★ 3,242 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.8/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.6/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.4/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · 3,242 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 1d ago; 4 releases/12mo; 96 open issues
- · manual review: Qdrant's FastEmbed — fast on-device embeddings; smaller adoption; license: Apache-2.0
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