RAG And Embedding Models

Embedding and retrieval records for RAG, semantic search, sentence similarity, clustering, and agent memory workflows.

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Question: What are good open embedding models for RAG and semantic search?

RAG And Embedding Models is a citation-ready Hugging Bay answer pack backed by live catalog rows. Representative rows: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2, BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5, sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2, sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2, BAAI/bge-m3. Use each canonical citation URL plus metadata/card endpoints for current license, trust, hosting, and download state.

Answer pack JSON Citation pack Ranking page

  1. sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2: RAG And Embedding Models; 1 hosted file; license apache-2.0; 244,269,077 upstream downloads
  2. BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5: RAG And Embedding Models; 1 hosted file; license mit; 61,393,457 upstream downloads
  3. sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2: RAG And Embedding Models; 1 hosted file; license apache-2.0; 49,222,516 upstream downloads
  4. sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2: RAG And Embedding Models; 1 hosted file; license apache-2.0; 33,094,839 upstream downloads
  5. BAAI/bge-m3: RAG And Embedding Models; 1 hosted file; license mit; 31,290,962 upstream downloads
  6. nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5: RAG And Embedding Models; 1 hosted file; license apache-2.0; 17,766,485 upstream downloads
  7. BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5: RAG And Embedding Models; 1 hosted file; license mit; 14,562,000 upstream downloads
  8. intfloat/multilingual-e5-large: RAG And Embedding Models; 12 hosted files; license mit; 10,539,867 upstream downloads
  9. Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B: RAG And Embedding Models; 6 hosted files; license apache-2.0; 10,188,733 upstream downloads
  10. intfloat/multilingual-e5-small: RAG And Embedding Models; 9 hosted files; license mit; 9,946,339 upstream downloads
  11. BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5: RAG And Embedding Models; 6 hosted files; license mit; 8,277,194 upstream downloads
  12. sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2: RAG And Embedding Models; external metadata; license apache-2.0; 7,567,460 upstream downloads

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