Snowflake Arctic Embed 2.0
Apache 2.0 multilingual embedding that keeps English quality high.
About
Arctic Embed 2.0 shipped in December 2024 in medium (305M) and large (568M) variants. Snowflake designed it to avoid the usual multilingual tradeoff: it tops English retrieval while also covering roughly 50 to 70 languages, with 8K context and Matryoshka truncation. Apache 2.0 licensed with ONNX exports, it is a common pick for teams that want strong open-weight retrieval without LLM-scale hardware.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Team-reported: MTEB Retrieval nDCG@10 55.98 (large variant)
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Release 2024-12-07 verified via MarkTechPost; Apache 2.0, 8192 tokens, multilingual, MTEB Retrieval 55.98 (L) verified via Snowflake's own engineering blog and a GGUF model card.; Team-reported claims about no-English-degradation come from Snowflake's blog; noted as vendor claims.; Medium variant is GTE-multilingual based (305M); covered in description only..