GTE Base is Alibaba's embedding model with a 512 context window, starting at $0.008 / 1M input. A base-size General Text Embeddings model from Alibaba for sentence similarity and semantic search tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-gte-base
TypeEmbedding
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window512 tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesEmbedding
Parameters0.11B
HuggingFace Likes131
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)253,329
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)20,609,179

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding✓
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/thenlper/gte-base
$0.008

Cost Calculator

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host GTE Base, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 0 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g6f.largeAWSL43 GB$0.202/hr
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hr
g6f.xlargeAWSL43 GB$0.237/hr
7 more instances can run GTE Base
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
GigaChat Embeddings 9.3B—4K——Available
Embed 5 Fast128K$0.080—Deprecating
Embed 5 Pro128K$0.120—Deprecating
Text Embedding 52K$0.025—Deprecating
Embed 5 Fast Image——$0.400—Available
Embed 5 Fast Text——$0.080—Available
Embed 5 Pro Image——$0.500—Available
Embed 5 Pro Text——$0.120—Available
Voyage 432K$0.060—Available
Voyage 4 Large32K$0.120—Available
GTE Base—512$0.008—Current

Model IDs

alibaba-gte-base
fireworks_ai/thenlper/gte-base
huggingface-sentencesimilarity-gte-base
thenlper/gte-base