PPLX Embed Models by Perplexity Labs
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2 models2026
Last refreshed 2026-10-08. Next refresh: weekly.
Details
ResearcherPerplexity Labs
LicenseMITOSI-approved
Commercial useCommercial use: permitted
Models2
Released2026
Capabilities
VisionAll models
MultimodalAll models
About
PPLX Embed is Perplexity Labs' embedding-model family. pplx-embed-v2-late (0.6B and 9B, MIT, 2026-10-07) are multimodal late-interaction (ColBERT) retrievers on Qwen3.5 that share one embedding space. Hosted API for v2-late is forthcoming per Perplexity's blog; v1 remains the earlier catalog entry.
Decision facts
- Best fit
- embeddingvision and multimodal work
- Capability starting point
- pplx-embed-v2-late-0.6b with multimodal inputs
- Lowest tracked input
- Not tracked
- Closest related family
- PPLX Decider
Current Variants
Use-when guidance is based on each model's tracked capabilities, context window, release date, and replacement status.
2 in view
pplx-embed-v2-late-0.6bCurrent
Use when the workload needs embedding and multimodal inputs.
2026-10embeddingmultimodal inputs
pplx-embed-v2-late-9bCurrent
Use when the workload needs embedding and multimodal inputs.
2026-10embeddingmultimodal inputs
| Model | Use when | Released | Signals | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pplx-embed-v2-late-0.6b | Use when the workload needs embedding and multimodal inputs. | 2026-10 | embeddingmultimodal inputs | Current |
| pplx-embed-v2-late-9b | Use when the workload needs embedding and multimodal inputs. | 2026-10 | embeddingmultimodal inputs | Current |
Release Timeline
1 release group2026-10
2 current
pplx-embed-v2-late-0.6b
Currentembeddingmultimodal inputs
pplx-embed-v2-late-9b
Currentembeddingmultimodal inputs
Specifications(2 models)
| Model | Released | Parameters | Vision | Multimodal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pplx-embed-v2-late-0.6b | 2026-10 | 0.6B (340M active) | Yes | Yes |
| pplx-embed-v2-late-9b | 2026-10 | 9B (7.4B active) | Yes | Yes |
