BidirLM-1.7B-Embedding (BidirLM) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: BidirLM-1.7B-Embedding (BidirLM)
Author: Bidirlm

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Apr 7, 2026

Provider: Bidirlm
Release date: Apr 7, 2026; Boards
Parameters: 1.7B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Embeddings; Hugging Face
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Hosting: self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 3.4 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 1.7 GB at 8-bit, about 0.9 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
23	MTEBEmbeddings · as “BidirLM/BidirLM-1.7B-Embedding”	Embeddings	63.5%	96

Versions and release history

4 versions in this line since Apr 7, 2026, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

Version	Released	Source
BidirLM-0.6B-Embedding (BidirLM)	Apr 7, 20267 months ago	Boards
BidirLM-1.7B-Embedding (BidirLM)this model	Apr 7, 20267 months ago	Boards
BidirLM-1B-Embedding (BidirLM)	Apr 7, 20267 months ago	Boards
BidirLM-270M-Embedding (BidirLM)	Apr 7, 20267 months ago	Boards

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