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568M parameters, text in, embeddings out, 8K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it.
Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #33 in Embeddings · score 93.4 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 2.6M · #54 of 619 tracked
Changed this week: 2 new quantized builds on the Hub (17 in all).2026-10-24
Picked by rule from 29 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.
Wiz Red Agent discovered and exploited a script injection vulnerability in Snowflake's GitHub Actions workflow that GitHub Advanced Security missed.
The 2 picks above, plus these 23. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.
Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.
| # | Cheapest live row | In /1M | Out /1M | Context | Quant | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HF Inference | — | — | — | — | Oct 25 |
Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.
Served by 1 API provider; 17 quantized builds for local use.
Top Spaces running it: lamhieu/lightweight-embeddings ♥ 12 · denniscraandijk/mtem-pruner ♥ 3 · sergeyzh/rusBEIR-lite ♥ 3 · ariansyahdedy/chat ♥ 1
Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method
About 0.3 GB at INT4, 0.7 GB at FP8, 1.4 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.
Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate
Third-party measurements only; author-reported numbers stay in Reference, marked as such.
63.6. Each tick is a model on this site with a measured MTEB row; author-reported numbers stay in Reference. Mean(task) x100 over 41 tasks. 41 tasks, split=test
Source · leaderboard · 2026-10-24
Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.
Teal is the weights (2024-11-08), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.
56 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.
From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.
Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.
| Benchmark | Value | Setting / notes | Reported by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| measured MTEB · Embed text for search | 58.56 nDCG@10 x100 (mean of 10 tasks) | 10 tasks, split=test | leaderboard | 2026-10-24 |
| measured MTEB · Embed text for search | 63.6 mean(task) x100 over 41 tasks | 41 tasks, split=test | leaderboard | 2026-10-24 |
| measured MTEB Reranking · Rerank search results | 47.47 MAP x100 (mean of 2 tasks) | 2 tasks, split=test | leaderboard | 2026-10-24 |
| author-reported BEIR · Embed text for search | 55.6 | snowflake-arctic-l-v2.0 (1024) | model author | 2026-10-07 |
| author-reported BEIR · Embed text for search | 54.3 | snowflake-arctic-l-v2.0 (256) | model author | 2026-10-07 |
| author-reported CLEF (5) | 51.9 | snowflake-arctic-l-v2.0 (256) | model author | 2026-10-07 |
| author-reported CLEF (Focused) | 52.9 | snowflake-arctic-l-v2.0 (1024) | model author | 2026-10-07 |
| author-reported CLEF (Full) | 54.3 | snowflake-arctic-l-v2.0 (1024) | model author | 2026-10-07 |
| author-reported CLEF (Full) | 53.4 | snowflake-arctic-l-v2.0 (256) | model author | 2026-10-07 |
| author-reported MIRACL · Embed text for search | 55.8 | snowflake-arctic-l-v2.0 (1024) | model author | 2026-10-07 |
| author-reported MIRACL · Embed text for search | 54.3 | snowflake-arctic-l-v2.0 (256) | model author | 2026-10-07 |
Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.
Listed in Embeddings
| Pipeline tag | sentence-similarity |
|---|---|
| Library | sentence-transformers |
| Architectures | XLMRobertaModel |
| Model type | xlm-roberta |
| Dtype | float32 |
| Params by dtype | F32: 567,754,752 |
| Size band | S |
| MoE | no |
| Context length | 8,194 (config.json max_position_embeddings) |
| Languages | af, ar, az, be, bg, bn, ca, ceb, cs, cy, da, de, el, en, es, et, eu, fa, fi, fr, gl, gu, he, hi, hr, ht, hu, hy, id, is, it, ja, jv, ka, kk, km, kn, ko, ky, lo, lt, lv, mk, ml, mn, mr, ms, my, ne, nl, pa, pl, pt, qu, ro, ru, si, sk, sl, so, sq, sr, sv, sw, ta, te, th, tl, tr, uk, ur, vi, yo, zh |
| Papers | arXiv:2412.04506 |
| License | Apache 2.0 (apache-2.0) |
| Hub snapshot | 2026-10-25 |
vLLM: supported · XLMRobertaModel · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · XLMRobertaModel · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed
vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.
Weights-only memory for snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.
| BF16 (2 bytes/param) | 1.4 GB · Edge (<4 GB) |
|---|---|
| FP8 (1 byte/param) | 0.7 GB · Edge (<4 GB) |
| INT4 (0.5 bytes/param) | 0.3 GB · Edge (<4 GB) |
Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.
finetune: 35quantized: 17merge: 1adapter: 3
| Date | Commit | SHA |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-28 | Add exported onnx model 'model_O4.onnx' (#18) | ac6544c |
| 2025-04-25 | Upload sentencepiece.bpe.model (#14) | dcf86e2 |
| 2025-04-24 | Use matryoshka_dimensions to control the allowed output dimensions. (#13) | 8dbebde |
| 2025-04-07 | Update README | 5585c70 |
| 2025-04-07 | Update README | f2fa1cb |
| 2024-12-14 | update readme | 7f311bb |
| 2024-12-13 | Upload README.md | 5096452 |
| 2024-12-05 | Upload README.md | edc2df7 |
| 2024-12-05 | Upload README.MD | 41f336f |
| 2024-12-04 | Upload ONNX weights + Transformers.js sample code (#2) | f0ff6dc |
| 2024-12-04 | Update config_sentence_transformers.json | 450627b |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | 934f1e0 |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | f3897e9 |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | b713ad4 |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | 0e9d59f |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | ff195b8 |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | 8ebc5a7 |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | fcf7896 |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | 751a037 |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | 11a03be |
| 2024-12-04 | Update README.md | 9fd85e7 |
| 2024-12-03 | Update config_sentence_transformers.json | f9400d2 |
| 2024-12-03 | Update config_sentence_transformers.json | 880a366 |
| 2024-12-03 | update sentence transformers configs | 6022d0e |
| 2024-12-02 | Upload config_sentence_transformers.json | 69833a9 |
| 2024-11-24 | Update README.md | 14cb554 |
| 2024-11-09 | Upload model.safetensors | de9b6c6 |
| 2024-11-08 | Upload 4 files | 177b28a |
| 2024-11-08 | initial commit | be716f5 |
Hosted endpoints observed for snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting.
| Provider | Model ref | Context | Quant | $/M in | $/M out | tok/s | TTFT | Tools | Status | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HF Inference hf | Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | live | 2026-10-25 |
Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.
arXiv links found in the model card and its tags. "Peer-reviewed" is shown only with evidence: a published venue in OpenAlex (measured) or the authors' own journal reference on arXiv (reported).
Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:35 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:03 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25
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