SEA Performance
Jul 10, 2026
Overall SEA Average
Language Performance by Model
Model | ID | TH | VI | FIL | MY | TA | KM | MS | LO | TET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SEA-LION Embedding E5 0.6B AISG | 80.82 | 81.34 | 79.54 | 80.77 | 78.46 | 80.64 | 79.68 | 85.29 | 84.05 | 69.67 |
GritLM 7B Contextual AI | 80.47 | 72.84 | 77.37 | 45.05 | 77.49 | 60.42 | 52.58 | 78.41 | 30.07 | 69.66 |
EmbeddingGemma 0.3B | 80.19 | 80.58 | 76.40 | 70.42 | 57.11 | 76.10 | 64.07 | 79.19 | 53.01 | 67.32 |
Qwen3 Embedding 8B Alibaba | 79.73 | 81.49 | 78.99 | 74.91 | 78.05 | 75.95 | 75.46 | 82.39 | 78.20 | 67.44 |
Embed v3 Multilingual CohereLabs | 79.72 | 80.98 | 78.93 | 76.13 | 78.99 | 78.87 | 77.01 | 82.42 | 83.34 | 66.75 |
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct 0.6B Microsoft | 79.50 | 81.11 | 78.00 | 78.37 | 79.19 | 77.09 | 78.13 | 84.60 | 83.94 | 69.40 |
text-embedding-3-small OpenAI | 78.34 | 55.24 | 70.06 | 32.79 | 68.08 | 35.38 | 30.15 | 69.78 | 23.97 | 65.09 |
BGE M3 6B Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence | 78.09 | 77.59 | 75.91 | 73.12 | 75.78 | 77.51 | 76.23 | 82.54 | 82.26 | 65.53 |
Jina Embeddings v3 0.6B Jina AI | 77.35 | 78.64 | 76.10 | 75.11 | 74.25 | 76.14 | 74.73 | 77.91 | 77.91 | 65.11 |
KaLM Embedding v2.5 0.5B Harbin Institute of Technology | 76.80 | 74.00 | 74.80 | 40.30 | 64.30 | 51.30 | 34.20 | 69.10 | 25.90 | 66.60 |
voyage-3 Voyage AI | 75.56 | 69.78 | 73.68 | 48.19 | 71.43 | 67.28 | 35.02 | 69.13 | 24.27 | 61.48 |
LaBSE 0.5B UKP Lab | 73.98 | 70.20 | 72.60 | 73.63 | 76.99 | 76.59 | 74.06 | 82.87 | 79.84 | 69.11 |
SEA Competencies
Model | SEA | Multilabel Classification | Bitext Mining | Instruction Retrieval | QA Retrieval | Reranking | Classification | Semantic Textual Similarity | Pair Classification | Clustering |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SEA-LION Embedding E5 0.6B AISG | 80.03 | 89.41 | 89.59 | 69.98 | 77.78 | 78.11 | 76.06 | 76.52 | 67.28 | 53.98 |
Multilingual E5 Large Instruct 0.6B Microsoft | 78.93 | 87.84 | 87.86 | 69.10 | 77.16 | 77.24 | 77.70 | 75.59 | 66.58 | 58.09 |
Embed v3 Multilingual CohereLabs | 78.31 | 89.98 | 88.32 | 65.59 | 78.17 | 77.77 | 78.52 | 73.11 | 66.11 | 48.99 |
Qwen3 Embedding 8B Alibaba | 77.26 | 90.57 | 84.78 | 70.81 | 81.99 | 78.51 | 78.60 | 75.31 | 63.10 | 52.93 |
BGE M3 6B Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence | 76.46 | 89.89 | 86.18 | 58.51 | 73.56 | 75.98 | 75.98 | 73.27 | 68.73 | 42.23 |
Jina Embeddings v3 0.6B Jina AI | 75.33 | 88.97 | 81.86 | 69.11 | 76.28 | 72.49 | 77.40 | 73.17 | 63.61 | 50.90 |
LaBSE 0.5B UKP Lab | 74.99 | 86.65 | 86.84 | 39.73 | 53.72 | 61.23 | 75.19 | 68.32 | 62.32 | 41.39 |
EmbeddingGemma 0.3B | 70.44 | 89.19 | 72.87 | 70.72 | 77.13 | 78.44 | 77.25 | 68.13 | 69.60 | 40.22 |
GritLM 7B Contextual AI | 64.44 | 88.76 | 63.63 | 67.60 | 65.97 | 73.37 | 77.47 | 64.69 | 63.86 | 46.29 |
voyage-3 Voyage AI | 59.58 | 88.70 | 55.62 | 61.77 | 62.91 | 74.62 | 75.72 | 61.97 | 60.23 | 45.15 |
KaLM Embedding v2.5 0.5B Harbin Institute of Technology | 57.70 | 72.30 | 61.00 | 87.50 | 63.50 | 73.10 | 74.20 | 51.50 | 45.90 | 62.30 |
text-embedding-3-small OpenAI | 52.89 | 88.19 | 43.12 | 52.87 | 65.18 | 71.25 | 72.88 | 52.31 | 60.16 | 39.34 |