E5 Base V2
E5 Base V2 is Microsoft's embedding model, starting at $0.06 / 1M input and $0.06 / 1M output. A base-size V2 text embedding model from the E5 family, designed for general-purpose sentence similarity and retrieval.
Capabilities
Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding✓
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | Batch | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.06 | $0.06 | $0.03 | $0.03 | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host E5 Base V2, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 0 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
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 Base V2 | — | — | $0.060 | $0.060 | Current |
| E5 Large V2 | — | — | — | — | 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 |