GTE Large is Alibaba's embedding model with a 512 context window, starting at $0.016 / 1M input. A large-size General Text Embeddings model from Alibaba optimized for sentence similarity and semantic retrieval.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-gte-large
TypeEmbedding
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window512 tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesEmbedding
Parameters0.34B
HuggingFace Likes300
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)1,223,048
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)25,670,046

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-large
$0.016

Cost Calculator

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host GTE Large, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 1 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/hrus-east-1
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hrwestus2
g6f.xlargeAWSL43 GB$0.237/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run GTE Large
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Text Embedding 52K$0.025Available
Voyage 432K$0.060Available
Voyage 4 Large32K$0.120Available
Voyage 4 Lite32K$0.020Available
Embed 4128K$0.120$0.470Available
Embed 4 Img$0.470Available
Embed 4 Txt$0.120Available
Text Embedding 42K$0.100Deprecated
Voyage 3.532K$0.060Available
Voyage 3.5 Lite32K$0.020Available
GTE Large512$0.016Current

Model IDs

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