Octen-Embedding-8B (Octen) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Octen-Embedding-8B (Octen)
Author: Octen

open weights · top 10 on 1 of 1 · released Dec 23, 2025

Provider: Octen
Release date: Dec 23, 2025; Boards
Parameters: 7.6B 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 15 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 7.6 GB at 8-bit, about 3.8 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
7	MTEBEmbeddings · as “Octen/Octen-Embedding-8B”	Embeddings	67.8%	96

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