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What is sentence-transformers?
Python toolkit for generating semantic embeddings from text, images, audio, and video using transformer-based neural networks. Supports dense embedding models, cross-encoder rerankers for scoring and ranking, and late-interaction multi-vector models for advanced retrieval tasks.
sentence-transformers pricing
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What sentence-transformers does
The capabilities that matter for embeddings apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture model
- Open weights local
- Matryoshka representation learning for dimension truncation
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- Multilingual support across 100 plus languages
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- Binary and scalar quantization for memory reduction
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- Cross encoder reranker API offered
- ✓
- Late interaction architecture colbert v2
- ✓
- Massive context window greater than 8k tokens
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- Multi modal image and text joint embeddings
- ✓
- Task specific prefixes query vs document instructions
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- Zero data retention training opt out enterprise
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- SOC2 type ii
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- Mit or apache permissive oss license
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- Pricing model
- Free open weights
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Self-hosted
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- Hugging Face Hub
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
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Compare sentence-transformers
Side by side against other embeddings apis, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for sentence-transformers, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development activity | 63 | 0.09 | 5.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 0.08 | 4.5 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 85 | 0.05 | 4.4 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 62 | 0.06 | 3.9 | ✓ |
| Stars | 81 | 0.03 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 0.07 | 0.6 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Pricing model: free_open_weights · Architecture model: open_weights_local · Cross encoder reranker api offered: Yes · Late interaction architecture colbert v2: Yes · Multi modal image and text joint embeddings: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Python | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-21 · 75% |
Pricing
Release
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=sentence-transformers&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90% |