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E5 Base


E5 Base is Microsoft logoMicrosoft's embedding model. A base-size general-purpose text embedding model from the E5 family, designed for sentence similarity, retrieval, and clustering tasks.
Spec
Canonical IDmicrosoft-e5-base
TypeEmbedding
StatusActive
CreatorMicrosoftMicrosoft
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesEmbedding

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·

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
E5 2 Base$0.060$0.060Available
E5 2 LargeAvailable
E5 2 SmallAvailable
E5 BaseCurrent
E5 LargeAvailable
Multilingual E5 BaseAvailable
Multilingual E5 Large$0.100$0.100Available
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct$0.025$0.000Available
Multilingual E5 Small$0.015$0.000Available

Model IDs