# MTEB GermanQuAD-Retrieval 26 models with a score. Leader: most-embed-de with 97.7. | Benchmark profile | | |---|---| | Task | Retrieval (de) | | Metric | nDCG@10 | | Direction | ↑ higher is better | | Limitation | Ein Wert gilt fuer die gemessene Modellrevision und die volle Vektorlaenge; gekuerzte Laengen sind nicht gemessen (R-MESS). | | Source | [huggingface.co](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard) | | Licence | CC0 — MTEB-Ergebnisse (embeddings-benchmark/results) | ## Ranking (26) | Model | Rank | Score | Developer | EU processing: Input | EU processing: Output | all providers: Input | all providers: Output | Open weights | GPU memory (4-bit, derived) | |---|---:|---:|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | [most-embed-de](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/most-embed-de/) | 1 | **97.7** | malteos | – | – | – | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2-0/) | 2 | **95.5** | Snowflake | – | – | – | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [bekko-embedding-v1-a25m](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/bekko-embedding-v1-a25m/) | 3 | **95.4** | hotchpotch | – | – | – | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [bekko-embedding-v1-a8m](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/bekko-embedding-v1-a8m/) | 4 | **95.2** | hotchpotch | – | – | – | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [E5-Mistral-7B](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/e5-mistral-7b/) | 4 | **95.2** | Microsoft | €0.02 | – | €0.02 | – | ✓ yes | [from 8 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [multilingual-e5-large-instruct](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/multilingual-e5-large-instruct/) | 6 | **94.7** | Microsoft | €0.03 | €0.02 | €0.009 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v2.0](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v2-0/) | 7 | **94.5** | Snowflake | – | – | €0.036 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [cohere-embed-multilingual-v3.0](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/cohere-embed-multilingual-v3-0/) | 8 | **94.3** | Cohere | – | – | €0.09 | – | – no | – | | [intfloat/multilingual-e5-large](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/multilingual-e5-large/) | 9 | **93.2** | Microsoft | €0.0082 | – | €0.0082 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [multilingual-e5-small](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/multilingual-e5-small/) | 10 | **91.37** | Google | – | – | €0.0067 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [gte-multilingual-base](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/gte-multilingual-base/) | 11 | **90.6** | Alibaba Cloud | – | – | – | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [granite-embedding-278m-multilingual](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual/) | 12 | **89.1** | IBM | – | – | – | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [Cohere Embed 3 Model - English](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/cohere-embed-3-model-english/) | 13 | **85.21** | Cohere | – | – | €0.09 | – | – | – | | [e5-large-v2](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/e5-large-v2/) | 14 | **84.71** | – | – | – | €0.009 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [snowflake-arctic-embed-l](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/snowflake-arctic-embed-l/) | 15 | **82.1** | Snowflake | – | – | – | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [bge-large-en-v1.5](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/bge-large-en-v1-5/) | 16 | **79.8** | BAAI | – | – | €0.009 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [gte-large](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/gte-large/) | 17 | **79.64** | – | – | – | €0.009 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [e5-base-v2](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/e5-base-v2/) | 18 | **79.25** | – | – | – | €0.0045 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [mxbai-embed-large-v1](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/mxbai-embed-large-v1/) | 19 | **78.4** | Mixedbread | – | – | – | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [bge-base-en-v1.5](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/bge-base-en-v1-5/) | 20 | **76.2** | BAAI | – | – | €0.0045 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [gte-base](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/gte-base/) | 21 | **75.9** | – | – | – | €0.0045 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [nomic-embed-text-v1.5](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/nomic-embed-text-v1-5/) | 21 | **75.9** | Nomic AI | – | – | – | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [all-mpnet-base-v2](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/all-mpnet-base-v2/) | 23 | **71.01** | – | – | – | €0.0045 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [SNOWFLAKE ARCTIC-EMBED-M-V1.5](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v1-5/) | 24 | **70.71** | Snowflake | – | – | €0.022 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [All MiniLM L12 v2](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/all-minilm-l12-v2/) | 25 | **66.9** | – | – | – | €0.0045 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | | [all-MiniLM-L6-v2](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/models/all-minilm-l6-v2/) | 26 | **63.7** | – | – | – | €0.0045 | – | ✓ yes | [from 5 GB](https://models.searchit-agent.ai/en/self-hosting/#tier-24-gb) | _Equal scores share a rank. When filtering, the rank stays the position in the whole list. GPU memory “from …” is a lower bound (parameters × 0.55 GB + 4 GB). Prices: € per 1M tokens. Source: providers' pricing pages, read and checked by searchit. As of 7 Nov 2026._ _Scores: MTEB GermanQuAD-Retrieval, CC0 — MTEB-Ergebnisse (embeddings-benchmark/results). Taken unchanged from the source._ --- Prices as of 7 Nov 2026. Providers' list prices, without guarantee.