Model
BGE
BGE is an open-weight AI model, released in 2023, made for developers.
A family of open embedding and reranker models from BAAI for search and RAG.
Main jobs: Embeddings. It is open source and free to use. You can use it on your own server, offline on your own machine and through an API.
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At a glance
- Type
- Model
- Released
- 2023
- Galaxy
- Models & APIs
- Open source
- Yes · MIT
- Source code
- github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding
- GitHub stars
- 12,192
- How you run it
- Self-host · Runs offline · API
- Made for
- Developers
- Website
- github.com
- Also known as
- FlagEmbedding · BAAI General Embedding · bge-m3
What it can do
Embeddingsmain jobunconfirmed
“BGE (BAAI General Embedding) focuses on retrieval-augmented LLMs, consisting of the following projects currently: - Inference : Embedder, Reranker”— github.com, 2026-09-24
Vector searchsupportedunconfirmed
“It is the first embedding model which supports all three retrieval methods, achieving new SOTA on multi-lingual (MIRACL) and cross-lingual (MKQA) benchmarks.”— github.com, 2026-09-24
unconfirmedproposed by a machine, awaiting calibration
Alternatives
- Sentence TransformersOpen source, freeAlso does: Embeddings, Vector search
- BERTOpen source, freeAlso does: Embeddings
- CLIPOpen source, freeAlso does: Embeddings
- word2vecOpen source, freeAlso does: Embeddings
- ELMoOpen source, freeAlso does: Embeddings
- WeaviateOpen source, freeAlso does: Vector search, Embeddings
- MistralOpen source, freeAlso does: Embeddings
- OpenAI PlatformPaidAlso does: Embeddings
- LLMOpen source, freeAlso does: Embeddings
- LocalAIOpen source, freeAlso does: Embeddings
Connections
- Applies
- Embeddings
Questions
What is BGE?
BGE is an open-weight AI model, released in 2023, made for developers. A family of open embedding and reranker models from BAAI for search and RAG.
Is BGE free?
Yes. BGE is open source (MIT) and free to use.
Is BGE open source?
Yes, under the MIT license. The source code is at https://github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding.
Can BGE run locally?
Yes. BGE can run offline on your own machine. It can also be self-hosted on your own server.
What can BGE do?
Main jobs: Embeddings. It can also do: Vector search.
What are open-source alternatives to BGE?
Open-source ones: Sentence Transformers, BERT, CLIP, word2vec, ELMo, Weaviate, Mistral and LLM. Others: OpenAI Platform.
Sources
- github.com/FlagOpen/FlagEmbeddingchecked 2026-09-24