granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2 (ibm-granite) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2 (ibm-granite)
Author: IBM

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Apr 29, 2026

Provider: IBM
Release date: Apr 29, 2026; Boards
Parameters: 97M 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 0.2 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 0.1 GB at 8-bit, about 0 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
58	MTEBEmbeddings · as “ibm-granite/granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2”	Embeddings	51.9%	96

Versions and release history

2 versions in this line since Apr 29, 2026, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

Version	Released	Source
granite-embedding-311M-multilingual-r2 (ibm-granite)	Apr 29, 20266 months ago	Boards
granite-embedding-97M-multilingual-r2 (ibm-granite)this model	Apr 29, 20266 months ago	Boards

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