Who is SOTA in Embeddings?Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B & Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 & Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B

Retrieval and embedding quality on the official MTEB multilingual leaderboard. English v2 is secondary and drops out if it saturates. As of Oct 15, 2026, Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B & Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 & Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B are tied for state of the art in…

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#	Model	State	Confidence	Why
1	MSMicrosoft Harrier Oss V1 27B Microsoft	Co-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B is tied for SOTA in Embeddings with Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B, Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511, within…
1	TETencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 tencent	Co-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 is tied for SOTA in Embeddings with Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B, Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B, within…
1	QQwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B Alibaba / Qwen	Co-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B is tied for SOTA in Embeddings with Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511, Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B, within…
2	BBytedance Seed1 6 Embedding 1215 ByteDance	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #2, 3.5 percentile points behind the leader.
3	NNvidia Llama Embed Nemotron 8B NVIDIA	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #3, 4.7 percentile points behind the leader.
4	QQwen Qwen3 Embedding 4B Alibaba / Qwen	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #4, 5.8 percentile points behind the leader.
5	MSMicrosoft Harrier Oss V1.0 6B Microsoft	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #5, 7.0 percentile points behind the leader.
6	COCodefuse AI F2llm V2 14B codefuse-ai	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #6, 8.1 percentile points behind the leader.
7	GGoogle Gemini Embedding 001 Google DeepMind	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #7, 9.3 percentile points behind the leader.
8	COCodefuse AI F2llm V2 8B codefuse-ai	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #8, 10.5 percentile points behind the leader.
9	OCOcten Octen Embedding 8B Octen	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #9, 11.6 percentile points behind the leader.
10	COCodefuse AI F2llm V2 4B codefuse-ai	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #10, 12.8 percentile points behind the leader.
11	JIJinaai Jina Embeddings V5 Omni Small jinaai	Near-SOTA · Embeddings	medium	Close in Embeddings: rank #11, 14.0 percentile points behind the leader.
12	MSMicrosoft Harrier Oss V1 270m Microsoft	#12 in Embeddings	medium	Ranked #12 in Embeddings.
13	AIAI Sage Giga Embeddings Instruct 10B A1 8B 0826 ai-sage	#13 in Embeddings	medium	Ranked #13 in Embeddings.

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Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B

[![CO-SOTA · Embeddings · Apr 2026](https://isitsota.com/badge/microsoft-harrier-oss-v1-27b/embeddings.svg)](https://isitsota.com/m/microsoft-harrier-oss-v1-27b)

Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511

[![CO-SOTA · Embeddings · Apr 2026](https://isitsota.com/badge/tencent-kalm-embedding-gemma3-12b-2511/embeddings.svg)](https://isitsota.com/m/tencent-kalm-embedding-gemma3-12b-2511)

Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B

[![CO-SOTA · Embeddings · Apr 2026](https://isitsota.com/badge/qwen-qwen3-embedding-8b/embeddings.svg)](https://isitsota.com/m/qwen-qwen3-embedding-8b)

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What can move this crown

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

Who is SOTA in Embeddings?

As of Oct 15, 2026, Microsoft Harrier Oss V1 27B & Tencent Kalm Embedding Gemma3 12B 2511 & Qwen Qwen3 Embedding 8B are tied for state of the art in Embeddings (since Apr 1, 2026; sources MTEB Multilingual v2 (MMTEB); methodology v1.0).

Since when is the Embeddings crown current?

The current crown in Embeddings has held since Apr 1, 2026.