Best AI model for embeddings — October 2026

Ranks

1. #1 Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B
2. #1 Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511
3. #1 Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B
4. #2 Bytedance Seed1 6 Embedding 1215
5. #3 Nvidia Llama Embed Nemotron 8B
6. #4 Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 4B
7. #5 Microsoft Harrier Oss V1.0 6B
8. #6 Codefuse AI F2llm V2 14B
9. #7 Google Gemini Embedding 001
10. #8 Codefuse AI F2llm V2 8B

Last crown changes

• Apr 1, 2026 — Embeddings: Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B and Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 and Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B are co-SOTA
• Dec 23, 2025 — Embeddings: Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B and Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 4B and Google Gemini Embedding 001 and Nvidia Llama Embed Nemotron 8B and Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 and Bytedance Seed1 6 Embedding 1215 are co-SOTA
• Sep 4, 2025 — Embeddings: Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B and Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 4B and Google Gemini Embedding 001 are co-SOTA

Which benchmarks count

• MTEB Multilingual v2 (MMTEB) — primary, weight 1
• MTEB English v2 — secondary, weight 0.45