Microsoft

Multilingual E5 Large

Name: Multilingual E5 Large
Brand: Microsoft
Price: 0.0135 USD
Availability: InStock

1024-dimension embeddings trained on 94 languages, and the most-cited multilingual retrieval baseline outside BGE. Pick it against bge-m3 when the corpus is short-chunk and the comparison is cross-language recall rather than window size.

Modalities

Text → Text

Usage

How much this model is actually called here.

Rank

#74

of 98 active models

Tokens served

63.6K

all-time

Platform share

0.0%

of all tokens

Tokens · last 15 daysSep 3 → Sep 17

Pricing

Pay per token. Cached input bills at this model’s own cached rate, listed below.

$0.0135 /1M input$0.00 /1M output

Hobby10 req/day · 2K in / 500 out

~$0.01/mo

Production1,000 req/day · 2K in / 500 out

~$0.81/mo

Scale20,000 req/day · 2K in / 500 out

~$16.20/mo

+ Estimate your workload

Requests / day1,000

Input tokens / request2,000

Output tokens / request500

Estimated monthly cost

$0.8100

$0.0270 / day on Multilingual E5 Large

Same workload on:

EmbeddingGemma 300M$0.1620-80%

BGE-M3$0.8100≈

Estimates use list pricing. Actual bills depend on real token counts, and every response includes its exact cost.

How it compares

Against the peers people actually weigh it against.

Spec	Multilingual E5 Large	EmbeddingGemma 300M	BGE-M3
Input /1M	$0.0135	$0.0027	$0.0135
Output /1M	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00
Context	1K	2K	8K
Tools	No	No	No
Reasoning	No	No	No
Throughput	460 tok/s	1211 tok/s	1318 tok/s

Quick start

Up and running in under two minutes.

1
Create an API key
Sign up and grab a key from the dashboard — $0.50 free credit on the free tier, which covers Multilingual E5 Large. No card required.
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Make your first request

Submit a generation job and poll until it succeeds.

curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "multilingual-e5-large",
    "input": ["first document", "second document"]
  }'

FAQ

Common questions about this model.

What is the context window of Multilingual E5 Large?

Multilingual E5 Large has a 1K-token context window — roughly 1 pages of text in a single request.

How much does the Multilingual E5 Large API cost?

$0.0135 per 1M input tokens and $0.00 per 1M output tokens. No subscription; you pay only for what you use.

Does Multilingual E5 Large support function calling?

No — Multilingual E5 Large does not support tool calling. For agent workloads, choose a tools-enabled model from the catalog.

How do I use Multilingual E5 Large?

Kyma is OpenAI-compatible: point your SDK's base URL at https://kymaapi.com/v1, use your Kyma API key, and set the model to multilingual-e5-large. Signing up is free and includes $0.50 of credit on the free tier, which covers this model — no card required.

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