Open-source alternatives to OpenAI Embeddings

OpenAI Embeddings in the AI category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

all-MiniLM-L6-v2

Small, fast model that turns English sentences into vectors for semantic search and clustering. Based on nreimers/MiniLM-L6-H384-uncased.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment
sentence-transformers

bge-m3

Multilingual embedding model from BAAI for search over long texts, with both dense and sparse vectors.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment
sentence-transformers

multilingual-e5-large

Multilingual embedding model for semantic search and text similarity across about a hundred languages. The model card lists Swedish support.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment
sentence-transformers

Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B

Small embedding model from the Qwen family for multilingual search and text similarity. Based on Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment
sentence-transformers

nomic-embed-text-v1.5

Embedding model from Nomic for long texts, where the vector size can be chosen as needed.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment
sentence-transformers

gte-multilingual-base

Multilingual embedding model from Alibaba for search and text similarity. The model card lists Swedish support.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

Deployment
sentence-transformers

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