I’ve been using MixedBread, which is a pretty old model at this point. Recently, I tried comparing it to some newer models and was disappointed that the results weren’t dramatically and uniformly better.
You probably can’t go wrong if you pick a recent one that scores decently well on benchmarks and is at the right price point (or memory requirement) for whatever you’re trying to do.
I've liked qwen and embeddinggemma for local search. Qwen because 32K is enough to basically fit a whole page into the context window and embeddiggemma because it's crazy efficient.
I’ve been using MixedBread, which is a pretty old model at this point. Recently, I tried comparing it to some newer models and was disappointed that the results weren’t dramatically and uniformly better.
You probably can’t go wrong if you pick a recent one that scores decently well on benchmarks and is at the right price point (or memory requirement) for whatever you’re trying to do.
I've liked qwen and embeddinggemma for local search. Qwen because 32K is enough to basically fit a whole page into the context window and embeddiggemma because it's crazy efficient.
E5 (Microsoft)
Feels like embeddings are underrated compared to LLM's hype, but they doing great.
I’m partial to jina.ai — they have open models for code and prose, all easily runnable locally.
Benchmarks only paint part of the picture, but it's still a decent place to start looking into recent models:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard
who knows a tool for rug check in crypto
gemma4
embeddings are easy to fine tune. Try modern bert.