MTEB
The embedding leaderboard behind every retrieval stack.
You're looking at a benchmark record: a test the industry uses to measure chips or models — and what it actually tells you.
The Massive Text Embedding Benchmark scores embedding models across retrieval, clustering and classification — the reference for choosing the vectors under RAG systems, hosted live on Hugging Face.
How this connects to the rest of the stack
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Sources
Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.