Embedding and reranking models used for semantic search, RAG, and retrieval workflows.
Hugging Face downloads among selected embedding/reranking model alternatives.
Ranked alternatives
Popularity-ranked entries linked back to graph nodes and deterministic sources.
| Rank | Component | Kind | Openness | Popularity metric | Tasks | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | all-MiniLM-L6-v2model:all-minilm-l6-v2 | model | open weights | 230,826,064Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | embeddings | source |
| 2 | Nomic Embed Text v1.5model:nomic-embed-text-v1.5 | model | open weights | 17,630,308Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | embeddings, rag, semantic-search | source |
| 3 | BGE Large EN v1.5model:bge-large-en-v1.5 | model | open weights | 14,158,114Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | embeddings | source |
| 4 | BGE Base EN v1.5model:bge-base-en-v1.5 | model | open weights | 8,571,107Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | embeddings | source |
| 5 | Multilingual E5 Largemodel:multilingual-e5-large | model | open weights | 7,017,018Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | embeddings | source |
| 6 | mxbai-embed-large-v1model:mxbai-embed-large-v1 | model | open weights | 4,752,072Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | embeddings | source |
| 7 | Jina Embeddings v3model:jina-embeddings-v3 | model | open weights | 3,461,822Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | embeddings | source |
| 8 | E5 Large v2model:e5-large-v2 | model | open weights | 3,351,617Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | embeddings | source |
| 9 | GTE Large EN v1.5model:gte-large-en-v1.5 | model | open weights | 1,550,013Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | embeddings | source |
| 10 | BGE Reranker Largemodel:bge-reranker-large | model | open weights | 1,534,971Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | reranking | source |