Who is Snowflake Arctic Embed L for?

Snowflake Arctic Embed L is an open-source project built for developers and data scientists.

What platforms does Snowflake Arctic Embed L run on?

Snowflake Arctic Embed L runs on the web, embeddable surfaces, and API.

Is Snowflake Arctic Embed L still maintained?

Unverified. Snowflake Arctic Embed L has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.

What are alternatives to Snowflake Arctic Embed L?

Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Snowflake Arctic Embed S, Snowflake Arctic Embed L, and Snowflake Arctic Embed M.

Who develops Snowflake Arctic Embed L?

Snowflake Arctic Embed L is developed by Snowflake, based in the United States.

When did Snowflake Arctic Embed L launch?

Snowflake Arctic Embed L first shipped in 2024.

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Snowflake Arctic Embed L

Name: Snowflake Arctic Embed L
Author: Snowflake

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Snowflake Arctic Embed L is a large text embedding model developed by Snowflake, optimized for high performance on the MTEB benchmark. It transforms sentences and documents into dense vector representations suitable for semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), clustering, and other similarity-based tasks. The model is available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license for both research and commercial use.

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Snowflake Arctic Embed L is a Foundation models & chat project. It focuses on creating high-quality vector embeddings for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation applications. Snowflake Arctic Embed L is an open-source project aimed at developers and data scientists. Snowflake Arctic Embed L is open source under the Open Source license. Snowflake Arctic Embed L is available on the web, embeddable surfaces, and API.

Behind Snowflake Arctic Embed L is Snowflake, based in the United States, and it first shipped in 2024. PulseGate's similarity index places it among 7 comparable projects. Key capabilities include Text Embeddings, Sentence Similarity, and MTEB Benchmark.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

Text Embeddings
Sentence Similarity
MTEB Benchmark
High Performance

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Indexed3 Aug · 08:12 UTC
Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l verified against its public source
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Frequently asked questions about Snowflake Arctic Embed L

What does Snowflake Arctic Embed L do?: Snowflake Arctic Embed L focuses on creating high-quality vector embeddings for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation applications. It is catalogued under Foundation models & chat on PulseGate.
Who is Snowflake Arctic Embed L for?: Snowflake Arctic Embed L is an open-source project built for developers and data scientists.
Is Snowflake Arctic Embed L free?: Yes — Snowflake Arctic Embed L is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.
What platforms does Snowflake Arctic Embed L run on?: Snowflake Arctic Embed L runs on the web, embeddable surfaces, and API.
Is Snowflake Arctic Embed L still maintained?: Unverified. Snowflake Arctic Embed L has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What are alternatives to Snowflake Arctic Embed L?: Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Snowflake Arctic Embed S, Snowflake Arctic Embed L, and Snowflake Arctic Embed M.Snowflake Arctic Embed S Snowflake Arctic Embed L Snowflake Arctic Embed M
Who develops Snowflake Arctic Embed L?: Snowflake Arctic Embed L is developed by Snowflake, based in the United States.
When did Snowflake Arctic Embed L launch?: Snowflake Arctic Embed L first shipped in 2024.

At a glance

Pricing: Open Source
Platforms: Web
Languages: English
License: Open Source
Built for: Developers and data scientists
Model: Open source
Solves: Creating high-quality vector embeddings for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation applications.

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Hugging Face: Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l

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Live coverage

Identity confidence: Medium · 70.4
Indexed: 3 Aug 2026
Lifecycle: Alive
Last seen: 3 Aug 2026

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Slug: snowflake-snowflake-arctic-embed-l-huggingface-co
Lifecycle state recorded: 3 Aug 2026
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 3 Aug 2026
Timeline basis: Indexed-at chronology. This listing's first-seen date was written by the catalog backfill, not observed here, so it is not treated as a sighting.
Name from: Derived from the project's own page and URL.
Category from: Derived from the model's own Hugging Face metadata.
Summary from: Written by a language model from public pages.
Languages from: Detected by a language model from page content.
Last updated: 5 Aug 2026
Canonical URL: https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l

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