snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0

Snowflake's Apache-2.0 open-weights multilingual retrieval embedding models (L and M sizes).

Where it ranks

Vendor: Snowflake
Family: Snowflake Arctic Embed
Released: Nov 2024
Weights: Open: download and run it yourself
License: Apache-2.0
Parameters: 0.57B
GPU memory to run locally: ~3 GB (Board lists ~2.2 GB memory use (0.57B parameters, fp32).)
Access: Free (open weights)
Last verified: 19 Oct 2026

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
MTEB(eng, v2)	63.6%	`Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0` Mean (Task) over all 41 tasks; board rank 100 (Borda); board zero-shot 95%; read from the leaderboard's public API.	19 Oct 2026	mteb-leaderboard-backend.hf.space
MTEB(Multilingual, v2)	57%	`Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0` Mean (Task) over all 131 tasks; board rank 63 (Borda); board zero-shot 99%; read from the leaderboard's public API.	19 Oct 2026	mteb-leaderboard-backend.hf.space