What are Embedding Models?

Embedding models, accessible via APIs, transform data such as text or images into numerical vector representations that capture semantic relationships. These vectors facilitate efficient similarity searches, clustering, and various AI-driven tasks by positioning related concepts closer together in a continuous space. By preserving contextual meaning, embedding models and embedding APIs help machines understand relationships between words, objects, or other entities. They play a crucial role in enhancing search relevance, recommendation systems, and natural language processing applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Embedding Models currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Gemini Embedding
    Gemini Embedding’s first text model (gemini-embedding-001) is now generally available via the Gemini API and Vertex AI, having held a top spot on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark Multilingual leaderboard since its experimental launch in March, thanks to superior performance across retrieval, classification, and other embedding tasks compared to both legacy Google and external proprietary models. Exceptionally versatile, it supports over 100 languages with a 2,048‑token input limit and employs the Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) technique to let developers choose output dimensions of 3072, 153,6, or 768 for optimal quality, performance, and storage efficiency. Developers can access it through the existing embed_content endpoint in the Gemini API, and while legacy experimental versions will be deprecated later in 2025, migration requires no re‑embedding of existing content.
    Starting Price: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
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    NVIDIA NeMo
    NVIDIA NeMo LLM is a service that provides a fast path to customizing and using large language models trained on several frameworks. Developers can deploy enterprise AI applications using NeMo LLM on private and public clouds. They can also experience Megatron 530B—one of the largest language models—through the cloud API or experiment via the LLM service. Customize your choice of various NVIDIA or community-developed models that work best for your AI applications. Within minutes to hours, get better responses by providing context for specific use cases using prompt learning techniques. Leverage the power of NVIDIA Megatron 530B, one of the largest language models, through the NeMo LLM Service or the cloud API. Take advantage of models for drug discovery, including in the cloud API and NVIDIA BioNeMo framework.
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    Voyage AI

    Voyage AI

    Voyage AI

    Voyage AI delivers state-of-the-art embedding and reranking models that supercharge intelligent retrieval for enterprises, driving forward retrieval-augmented generation and reliable LLM applications. Available through all major clouds and data platforms. SaaS and customer tenant deployment (in-VPC). Our solutions are designed to optimize the way businesses access and utilize information, making retrieval faster, more accurate, and scalable. Built by academic experts from Stanford, MIT, and UC Berkeley, alongside industry professionals from Google, Meta, Uber, and other leading companies, our team develops transformative AI solutions tailored to enterprise needs. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of AI innovation and delivering impactful technologies for businesses. Contact us for custom or on-premise deployments as well as model licensing. Easy to get started, pay as you go, with consumption-based pricing.
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    Mixedbread

    Mixedbread

    Mixedbread

    Mixedbread is a fully-managed AI search engine that allows users to build production-ready AI search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. It offers a complete AI search stack, including vector stores, embedding and reranking models, and document parsing. Users can transform raw data into intelligent search experiences that power AI agents, chatbots, and knowledge systems without the complexity. It integrates with tools like Google Drive, SharePoint, Notion, and Slack. Its vector stores enable users to build production search engines in minutes, supporting over 100 languages. Mixedbread's embedding and reranking models have achieved over 50 million downloads and outperform OpenAI in semantic search and RAG tasks while remaining open-source and cost-effective. The document parser extracts text, tables, and layouts from PDFs, images, and complex documents, providing clean, AI-ready content without manual preprocessing.
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    NVIDIA NeMo Retriever
    NVIDIA NeMo Retriever is a collection of microservices for building multimodal extraction, reranking, and embedding pipelines with high accuracy and maximum data privacy. It delivers quick, context-aware responses for AI applications like advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic AI workflows. As part of the NVIDIA NeMo platform and built with NVIDIA NIM, NeMo Retriever allows developers to flexibly leverage these microservices to connect AI applications to large enterprise datasets wherever they reside and fine-tune them to align with specific use cases. NeMo Retriever provides components for building data extraction and information retrieval pipelines. The pipeline extracts structured and unstructured data (e.g., text, charts, tables), converts it to text, and filters out duplicates. A NeMo Retriever embedding NIM converts the chunks into embeddings and stores them in a vector database, accelerated by NVIDIA cuVS, for enhanced performance and speed of indexing.
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    Codestral Embed
    Codestral Embed is Mistral AI's first embedding model, specialized for code, optimized for high-performance code retrieval and semantic understanding. It significantly outperforms leading code embedders in the market today, such as Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0, and OpenAI’s large embedding model. Codestral Embed can output embeddings with different dimensions and precisions; for instance, with a dimension of 256 and int8 precision, it still performs better than any model from competitors. The dimensions of the embeddings are ordered by relevance, allowing users to choose the first n dimensions for a smooth trade-off between quality and cost. It excels in retrieval use cases on real-world code data, particularly in benchmarks like SWE-Bench, which is based on real-world GitHub issues and corresponding fixes, and Text2Code (GitHub), relevant for providing context for code completion or editing.
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    EmbeddingGemma
    EmbeddingGemma is a 308-million-parameter multilingual text embedding model, lightweight yet powerful, optimized to run entirely on everyday devices such as phones, laptops, and tablets, enabling fast, offline embedding generation that protects user privacy. Built on the Gemma 3 architecture, it supports over 100 languages, processes up to 2,000 input tokens, and leverages Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) to offer flexible embedding dimensions (768, 512, 256, or 128) for tailored speed, storage, and precision. Its GPU-and EdgeTPU-accelerated inference delivers embeddings in milliseconds, under 15 ms for 256 tokens on EdgeTPU, while quantization-aware training keeps memory usage under 200 MB without compromising quality. This makes it ideal for real-time, on-device tasks such as semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), classification, clustering, and similarity detection, whether for personal file search, mobile chatbots, or custom domain use.
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