--- title: "MTEB Leaderboard" kind: "Kit" category: "Research" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/7a22b461-ef19-4980-ac74-6651115182dd" updated: "2026-11-12" --- # MTEB Leaderboard > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Ranks embedding models for text, images, audio and video on a leaderboard page that runs in the browser or in Docker. For people choosing which embedding model to use. MTEB Leaderboard is a kit in the Research category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-12. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by mteb ## About ### What it is MTEB Leaderboard is a web page for comparing embedding models. It covers models for text, images, audio and video. You can open it online, or build and run your own copy with Docker. ### Who it suits It suits people who need to pick an embedding model and want a ranking to start from, and developers curious how such a leaderboard is hosted. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AI research | Researchers | Compare embedding models side by side | Look up a model you already follow | | Software | ML engineers | Shortlist a model for their own project | Compare a few candidates before testing them | | Multimodal AI | Developers working with images, audio or video | Find models beyond text | Browse the models listed for another media type | | Operations | Platform engineers | Study how the leaderboard is containerised | Read the Dockerfile and models.py | Skip it if you need to know how each score is produced, since the source gives no method. ### Where to use it - A web browser, on the Space's page at Hugging Face - Docker on your own Windows, macOS or Linux computer | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Find an embedding model | Engineers | A ranked view of models to start from | | Compare across media | Developers | Entries for text, image, audio or video models | | Run a private copy | Platform teams | The same page running from a container on your machine | ### How to set it up The online page needs nothing. A local copy needs Docker, and Python with pip to fetch the files. - Docker - Python and pip, to fetch the files - Windows, macOS or Linux 1. Install the Hugging Face hub library. 2. Download the Space's files into a folder named leaderboard. 3. Move into that folder. 4. Build the Docker image. 5. Run the container with port 7860 published, then open that port in your browser. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download mteb/leaderboard --repo-type space --local-dir leaderboard cd leaderboard docker build -t leaderboard . docker run -it -p 7860:7860 leaderboard ``` ### How to use it Open the Space's page, or start the container with the last command above and browse to port 7860 on your machine. Then look through the leaderboard for the media type you care about. ```sh docker run -it -p 7860:7860 leaderboard ``` ### Example You open the page and look for models that handle text. You compare where a few of them sit before deciding which ones to try in your own project. ### For newcomers and experts Open the online page and scroll through it. An embedding model turns content into numbers so that similar items sit close together, and the leaderboard helps you pick one. The app is built with Docker, serves on port 7860 and has app.py as its main file. The Hugging Face copy runs on the cpu-upgrade tier. The repository itself holds only a Dockerfile, a README and models.py, and the source does not say where the page's data comes from. The record names many models, among them German\_Semantic\_STS\_V2, MedEmbed-small-v0.1 and FRIDA, and one dataset called BioVITA. Docker builds the image → The container runs app.py → The page is served on port 7860 → You browse the leaderboard ### Good to know - Hardware: The Hugging Face copy runs on the cpu-upgrade tier. - Gaps: The source says little beyond its purpose, so scoring methods and columns are not described here. - License: mit. - Cost to run: none named. - Data it reaches: The source does not say what data the page reads. ## README ````markdown # MTEB Leaderboard Ranks embedding models for text, images, audio and video on a leaderboard page that runs in the browser or in Docker. For people choosing which embedding model to use. Made by mteb on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: MTEB Leaderboard is a web page for comparing embedding models. It covers models for text, images, audio and video. You can open it online, or build and run your own copy with Docker. Who it suits: It suits people who need to pick an embedding model and want a ranking to start from, and developers curious how such a leaderboard is hosted. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example AI research | Researchers | Compare embedding models side by side | Look up a model you already follow Software | ML engineers | Shortlist a model for their own project | Compare a few candidates before testing them Multimodal AI | Developers working with images, audio or video | Find models beyond text | Browse the models listed for another media type Operations | Platform engineers | Study how the leaderboard is containerised | Read the Dockerfile and models.py ``` Skip it if you need to know how each score is produced, since the source gives no method. Where to use it: - A web browser, on the Space's page at Hugging Face - Docker on your own Windows, macOS or Linux computer ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Find an embedding model | Engineers | A ranked view of models to start from Compare across media | Developers | Entries for text, image, audio or video models Run a private copy | Platform teams | The same page running from a container on your machine ``` How to set it up: The online page needs nothing. A local copy needs Docker, and Python with pip to fetch the files. - Docker - Python and pip, to fetch the files - Windows, macOS or Linux 1. Install the Hugging Face hub library. 2. Download the Space's files into a folder named leaderboard. 3. Move into that folder. 4. Build the Docker image. 5. Run the container with port 7860 published, then open that port in your browser. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download mteb/leaderboard --repo-type space --local-dir leaderboard cd leaderboard docker build -t leaderboard . docker run -it -p 7860:7860 leaderboard ``` How to use it: Open the Space's page, or start the container with the last command above and browse to port 7860 on your machine. Then look through the leaderboard for the media type you care about. ```sh docker run -it -p 7860:7860 leaderboard ``` Example: You open the page and look for models that handle text. You compare where a few of them sit before deciding which ones to try in your own project. For newcomers and experts: Open the online page and scroll through it. An embedding model turns content into numbers so that similar items sit close together, and the leaderboard helps you pick one. The app is built with Docker, serves on port 7860 and has app.py as its main file. The Hugging Face copy runs on the cpu-upgrade tier. The repository itself holds only a Dockerfile, a README and models.py, and the source does not say where the page's data comes from. The record names many models, among them German_Semantic_STS_V2, MedEmbed-small-v0.1 and FRIDA, and one dataset called BioVITA. ```flow Docker builds the image The container runs app.py The page is served on port 7860 You browse the leaderboard ``` Good to know: - Hardware: The Hugging Face copy runs on the cpu-upgrade tier. - Gaps: The source says little beyond its purpose, so scoring methods and columns are not described here. - License: mit. - Cost to run: none named. - Data it reaches: The source does not say what data the page reads. ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Likes: 7,773 - Built with: docker - License: mit ## Links - Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard - Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard/tree/main ## Try it Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 4 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 4 KB ``` ## Source [mteb/leaderboard on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face Spaces in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Likes | Built with | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | MTEB Leaderboard (this page) | 7,773 | docker | mit | 2026-11-12 | | [Open LLM Leaderboard](https://mindket.com/p/f179f58f-4514-4b60-b61f-b86395bec554) | 14,156 | docker | apache-2.0 | 2026-05-27 | | [UGI Leaderboard](https://mindket.com/p/85570e8b-1c6f-4d8a-bede-5aac8be604d5) | 2,199 | docker | apache-2.0 | 2026-10-17 | | [CADGenBench Leaderboard](https://mindket.com/p/a743858b-b306-499b-8861-02d2800f2892) | 90 | docker | apache-2.0 | 2026-08-07 | | [Microduck Sandbox](https://mindket.com/p/3ee8f9e8-61ad-4382-b1f0-74011211142f) | 804 | docker | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-06 | | [Visualize Dataset (v2.0+ latest dataset format)](https://mindket.com/p/a41cd404-e729-4615-9dc9-3d957f6bb38e) | 754 | docker | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-10 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-13. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-12. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · davidtsong · 2023-10-30](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075196): Show HN: Playground for comparing embedding models on Wikipedia+book retrieval: Introducing embeds.ai: an embedding playground to compare how embedding models work on a real world use case (retrieval augmented generation for Wikipedia articles + Elad Gil's High growth handbook) A few weeks ago, Shreyan and I were looking for an embedding model to use for RAG. We eventually… - [Bluesky · MTEB · 2026-10-15](https://bsky.app/profile/mteb.org/post/3mxwcsr2xiz24): 1/ The best embedding model you can afford to run can sit well down the MTEB leaderboard, because the ranking ignores size. A new Pareto tag now marks it: no model with the same or fewer active parameters has a higher average score. Hover it to see the size range it leads. - [Hacker News · levkk · 2023-05-12](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35917757): Show HN: We unified LLMs, vector memory, ranking, pruning models in one process: There is a lot of latency involved shuffling data for modern and complex ML systems in production. In our experience these costs dominate end-to-end user latency, rather than actual model or ANN algorithms, which unfortunately limits what is achievable for interactive applications. We've extended… - [Bluesky · MTEB · 2026-10-13](https://bsky.app/profile/mteb.org/post/3mxrf7xpp3b2n): 3/ Because scores change, we will rerun the audio and video models on the leaderboard with the new settings. If you submit new audio or video results, please use mteb 2.24.4 or later. Work by AdnanElAssadi. - [Hacker News · yokee · 2023-12-06](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38539035): Show HN: SOTA Sentence Embeddings on MTEB Leaderboard - [Bluesky · @qdrddr.bsky.social · 2026-10-06](https://bsky.app/profile/qdrddr.bsky.social/post/3mx7zlti22k2l): Hope to see its performance on MTEB leaderboard soon. - [Hacker News · yokee · 2023-12-05](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38525527): Universal AnglE Sentence Embedding: New SOTA on MTEB Leaderboard - [Bluesky · Gunter Rotsaert · 2026-09-02](https://bsky.app/profile/mydeveloperplanet.com/post/3mujxun4q4g2t): The Hugging Face massive text embedding benchmark leaderboard. - [Hacker News · caprock · 2023-02-20](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34874130): Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Leaderboard - [Bluesky · Suraj · 2026-08-19](https://bsky.app/profile/surajssingh.com/post/3mtg4o5peac24): SILT\#00395: If you're looking for embedding models, consider looking at the MTEB Embedding Leaderboard on HuggingFace to see a wide selection of models across many benchmarks, as well as compare them with each other to see a good fit for your task: huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/... - [Hacker News · t4 · 2025-08-08](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836024): Ask HN: Help for Choosing an Embedding Model?: I've tried looking and the MTEB leaderboard and tested a few, but I'm curious about your experiences\! I'm looking for a model that would optimize for accuracy (finding relevant results), language support (as many as possible, English only is a no-no) and efficiency so I could potentially run it… - [Bluesky · Gunter Rotsaert · 2026-06-17](https://bsky.app/profile/mydeveloperplanet.com/post/3moicy6qfsw2e): The Hugging Face massive text embedding benchmark leaderboard. ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2026-11-12 - First published: 2022-09-29 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-12 - Something wrong? Tell us: https://mindket.com/takedown#ask ## Get it - [Open mteb/leaderboard on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard) - [Get it on your Mindket account](https://account.mindket.com/account/?product=mindket#/market/7a22b461-ef19-4980-ac74-6651115182dd) - [Its page on Mindket](https://mindket.com/p/7a22b461-ef19-4980-ac74-6651115182dd)