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E5 Base V2


E5 Base V2 is Microsoft's embedding model, starting at $0.060 / 1M input and $0.060 / 1M output. A base-size V2 text embedding model from the E5 family, designed for general-purpose sentence similarity and retrieval.
Specifications
Canonical IDmicrosoft-e5-2-base
TypeEmbedding
StatusActive
CreatorMicrosoftMicrosoft
Providers
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesEmbedding
HuggingFace Likes155
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)1,663,286
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)20,305,144

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

ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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Snowflake
e5-base-v2
$0.060$0.060$0.030$0.030

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
E5 Base V2$0.060$0.060Current
E5 Large V2Available
E5 Small V2Available
E5 BaseAvailable
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

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