Nomic Embed
https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
Nomic's open-weight embedding models (nomic-embed-text-v1.5, nomic-embed-vision), distributed on Hugging Face. Nomic itself has pivoted to domain-specific agents for architecture, engineering and construction firms (Nomic Platform, Agent API); the nomic.ai/embed page is gone.
Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 20 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Open embedding + atlas vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Section
- Embedding & reranker services
- Latest release
- v3.9.0 (2025-11-11) — nomic (PyPI) registry fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 vendor fix
- GitHub
- nomic-ai/nomic — ~1.9k stars, last commit 2025-11 repo fix
- Pricing
- Open weights free; Nomic platform Free, Individual $20/month, Business $40/user/month (25-seat minimum, includes Agent API), Enterprise custom vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- model-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source vendor fix
- SDK languages
- python, typescript registry fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 2.76 (12-mo avg 3.48) · 3 participants — 2025-11 third-party fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
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Claims & capabilities
Nomic seed-funded; open weights + Apache-licensed.
Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
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- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Apache-2.0 open weights on Hugging Face; hosted models via Nomic Agent API (Business/Enterprise)
- Embedding model
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- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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- Jina AI Embeddings T1
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- OpenAI Embeddings T1
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- Hugging Face Inference API (Embeddings) T1
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- Sentence Transformers T1
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Sources (19 cited facts, 1 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Open embedding + atlas vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Nomic's open-weight embedding models (nomic-embed-text-v1.5, nomic-embed-vision), distri… vendor
- Claims / benefits Nomic seed-funded; open weights + Apache-licensed. vendor
- Created 2024 vendor
- Latest release v3.9.0 (2025-11-11) — nomic (PyPI) registry
- License Apache-2.0 vendor
- GitHub nomic-ai/nomic — ~1.9k stars, last commit 2025-11 repo
- Funding $17M Series A 2023-07 (Coatue led); embeddings + Atlas visualization. vendor
- Pricing Open weights free; Nomic platform Free, Individual $20/month, Business $40/user/month (2… vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Apache-2.0 open weights on Hugging Face; hosted mod… vendor
- HQ New York, NY, USA. vendor
- Founders / pedigree Brandon Duderstadt (CEO), Andriy Mulyar; founded 2022 (NYC). vendor
- Code/weights release Stale — last commit 2025-03 · 787★ repo
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":6.11,"as_of":"2025-11","openrank_12mo":3.48,"openrank_current":2.76,"partici… third-party
- sdk-languages python,typescript registry
What changed
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- 2026-10-29
- Homepage “https://www.nomic.ai/embed” → “https://huggingface.co/nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5”
- 2026-10-27
- Latest release first recorded as “v3.9.0 (2025-11-11) — nomic (PyPI)” source
- Pricing first recorded as “Open weights free; Nomic platform Free, Individual $20/month, Business $40/user/month (25-seat minimum, includes Agent API), Enterprise custom” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Apache-2.0 open weights on Hugging Face; hosted models via Nomic Agent API (Business/Enterprise)” source
Related systems
Referenced by (5)
- Chroma integrates with — Chroma's docs have a Nomic Embed integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — LangChain's all-providers integrations page lists Nomic: "Open-source embedding models and tools". (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — LlamaIndex has an official embeddings integration package llama-index-embeddings-nomic in its repo. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Nomic LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Nomic Embed integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)