BGE M3
BGE M3 is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Cheapest of 2 routes · Novita AI
About
BGE-M3 is BAAI's flagship multilingual embedding model that simultaneously performs dense retrieval, sparse (lexical) retrieval, and multi-vector (ColBERT-style) retrieval. It covers 100+ languages with an 8,192-token context window — far longer than most embedding models — making it effective for both short queries and long documents. Built on an extended XLM-RoBERTa architecture, it achieves state-of-the-art results on the MKQA and MLDR multilingual retrieval benchmarks and is available via NVIDIA NIM.
BGE M3 is an open-source model in the BGE family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Cloudflare Workers AI and Novita AI. No headline benchmark score is tracked for BGE M3 yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | $0.010 | - | ServerlessPartial |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of BGE M3?
BGE M3 has a context window of 8k tokens.
How much does BGE M3 cost?
BGE M3 is available at $0.01/1M input tokens through Novita AI.
When was BGE M3 released?
BGE M3 was released on 2024-01-27.
Which providers offer BGE M3?
BGE M3 is available from 2 providers: Cloudflare Workers AI, Novita AI.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Novita AI