E5 Large V2
E5 Large V2 is Microsoft's embedding model. A large-size V2 text embedding model from the E5 family, offering strong performance on semantic similarity and information retrieval benchmarks.
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·
Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host E5 Large V2, 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.large |  AWS | L4 | 3 GB | $0.202/hr | us-east-1 | |
| Standard_NV4as_v4 |  Azure | AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 | 16 GB | $0.233/hr | westus2 | |
| g6f.xlarge | AWS | L4 | 3 GB | $0.237/hr | us-east-1 | |
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E5 Large V2 | — | — | — | — | Current |
| E5 Base V2 | — | — | $0.060 | $0.060 | Available |
| E5 Small V2 | — | — | — | — | Available |
| E5 Base | — | — | — | — | Available |
| E5 Large | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Multilingual E5 Base | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Multilingual E5 Large | — | — | $0.100 | $0.100 | Available |
| Multilingual E5 Large Instruct | — | — | $0.025 | — | Available |
| Multilingual E5 Small | — | — | $0.015 | — | Available |