Model List

We provide a number of models that can be used out of the box. These models are available on the HuggingFace hub and can be loaded using the from_pretrained method. The models are listed below:

ModelLanguageSentence TransformerParamsTask
potion-base-32MEnglishbge-base-en-v1.532.3MGeneral
potion-multilingual-128MMultilingualbge-m3128MGeneral
potion-retrieval-32MEnglishbge-base-en-v1.532.3MRetrieval
potion-base-8MEnglishbge-base-en-v1.57.5MGeneral
potion-base-4MEnglishbge-base-en-v1.53.7MGeneral
potion-base-2MEnglishbge-base-en-v1.51.8MGeneral

Which model is best for you depends on your use case. We recommend the following models:

  • General Use (English): potion-base-32M is the most performant model for general English tasks.
  • General Use (Multilingual): potion-multilingual-128M is the best choice for multilingual tasks.
  • Retrieval (English): potion-retrieval-32M is optimized for English retrieval tasks and is the best choice for this use case.
  • Lightweight (English): potion-base-8M is the best choice for lightweight applications since it’s only ~30mb on disk.

Note that all our models are the same speed, so you can choose the model based on your size and performance requirements.