Multilingual E5 Base is Microsoft's embedding model. A base-size multilingual text embedding model from the E5 family supporting cross-lingual semantic similarity and retrieval.
Specifications
Canonical IDmicrosoft-e5-multilingual-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 Base V2——$0.060$0.060Available
E5 Large V2————Available
E5 Small V2————Available
Multilingual E5 Base————Current
E5 Base————Available
E5 Large————Available
Multilingual E5 Large——$0.100$0.100Available
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct—514$0.025—Deprecated
Multilingual E5 Small——$0.015—Available

Model IDs

huggingface-sentencesimilarity-multilingual-e5-base
microsoft-e5-multilingual-base