Who is Snowflake Arctic Embed S for?

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

Is Snowflake Arctic Embed S free?

Yes — Snowflake Arctic Embed S is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.

What platforms does Snowflake Arctic Embed S run on?

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

Is Snowflake Arctic Embed S still maintained?

Unverified. Snowflake Arctic Embed S 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 projects are similar to Snowflake Arctic Embed S?

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

Who makes Snowflake Arctic Embed S?

Snowflake Arctic Embed S is developed by Snowflake.

When did Snowflake Arctic Embed S launch?

Snowflake Arctic Embed S first shipped in 2024.

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Snowflake Arctic Embed S

Name: Snowflake Arctic Embed S
Author: Snowflake

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Snowflake Arctic Embed S is a compact text embedding model from Snowflake optimized for sentence similarity and retrieval tasks. It achieves strong performance on the MTEB benchmark and is compatible with the sentence-transformers library. The model is designed for efficient deployment in RAG systems, semantic search, and other embedding-based applications.

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Overview

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Snowflake Arctic Embed S is a Foundation models & chat project. It focuses on creating efficient, high-performing text embeddings for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation applications. Snowflake Arctic Embed S is an open-source project aimed at developers and data scientists. The project is open source (Open Source). It runs on the web, embeddable surfaces, and API.

Behind Snowflake Arctic Embed S is Snowflake, and it first shipped in 2024. PulseGate's similarity index places it among 6 comparable projects. Among its 3 catalogued features are sentence similarity, text embeddings, and MTEB benchmark.

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

Sentence similarity
Text embeddings
MTEB benchmark

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AWS: x-amz-cf-id header · x-amz-cf-pop header · via header

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What PulseGate has recorded for this listing

Indexed25 Jul · 22:43 UTC
Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-s verified against its public source
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Frequently asked questions about Snowflake Arctic Embed S

What is Snowflake Arctic Embed S?: Snowflake Arctic Embed S focuses on creating efficient, high-performing text embeddings for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation applications. It is catalogued under Foundation models & chat on PulseGate.
Who is Snowflake Arctic Embed S for?: Snowflake Arctic Embed S is an open-source project built for developers and data scientists.
Is Snowflake Arctic Embed S free?: Yes — Snowflake Arctic Embed S is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.
What platforms does Snowflake Arctic Embed S run on?: Snowflake Arctic Embed S runs on the web, embeddable surfaces, and API.
Is Snowflake Arctic Embed S still maintained?: Unverified. Snowflake Arctic Embed S 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 projects are similar to Snowflake Arctic Embed S?: Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Snowflake Arctic Embed L, Snowflake Arctic Embed M, and Snowflake Arctic Embed M.Snowflake Arctic Embed L Snowflake Arctic Embed M Snowflake Arctic Embed M
Who makes Snowflake Arctic Embed S?: Snowflake Arctic Embed S is developed by Snowflake.
When did Snowflake Arctic Embed S launch?: Snowflake Arctic Embed S 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 efficient, high-performing text embeddings for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation applications.

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

Developer

Snowflake

Live coverage

Identity confidence: Medium · 70.4
Indexed: 25 Jul 2026
Lifecycle: Alive
Last seen: 25 Jul 2026

Identity audit (13)

Slug: snowflake-snowflake-arctic-embed-s-huggingface-co
Lifecycle state recorded: 25 Jul 2026
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 25 Jul 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-s

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