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snowflake-arctic-embed-xs is an embedding model from Snowflake.
Updated Sep 8, 2026. Default version: snowflake-arctic-embed-xs
This profile uses the model's current scored version. Arena ratings and prices are shown separately.
Benchmark scores for snowflake-arctic-embed-xs.
Benchmark | Score | Rank | Participants | Percentile | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| BenchmarkMTEB English v2 Retrieval | Score52.65% | Rank86 | Participants212 | Percentile59.72% | EvidenceA | EvaluatedN/A |
| BenchmarkMTEB English v2 Clustering | Score42.44% | Rank152 | Participants217 | Percentile30.09% | EvidenceA | EvaluatedN/A |
| BenchmarkMTEB English v2 Reranking | Score45.26% | Rank160 | Participants241 | Percentile33.75% | EvidenceA | EvaluatedN/A |
| BenchmarkMTEB English v2 Semantic Similarity | Score76.21% | Rank163 | Participants211 | Percentile22.86% | EvidenceA | EvaluatedN/A |
| BenchmarkMTEB English v2 Classification | Score74.16% | Rank208 | Participants257 | Percentile19.14% | EvidenceA | EvaluatedN/A |
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
The default version does not have a matching Arena result yet.
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The default version has no current input or output token prices.
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Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for snowflake-arctic-embed-xs. Runtime does not affect the capability score.
No provider-specific speed or latency record is linked to the default version yet.
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Technical details for the model's default version.
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
Version | Released | LLMBoard | Parameters | Context | Max output | Open weights | License |
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| Versionsnowflake-arctic-embed-xs | Released | LLMBoard39.82 | Parameters23M | Context512 | Max outputN/A | Open weightsYes | Licenseapache-2.0 |
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Key information about snowflake-arctic-embed-xs and its available data.
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs is an embedding model from Snowflake. It is described as a ranked model from MTEB.
Data as of 2026-09-08.
Common questions about snowflake-arctic-embed-xs.
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs's default version was released on Jul 8, 2024.
No official standard PAYG price is currently available for snowflake-arctic-embed-xs.
snowflake-arctic-embed-xs was created by Snowflake.
The default version has a 512 token context window.
Yes. The default version is marked as open weight under apache-2.0.
No provider offering is currently linked to the default version.