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fastembed

Fast, Accurate, Lightweight Python library to make State of the Art Embedding

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fastembed is a Python library from Qdrant for generating state-of-the-art embeddings, described as fast, accurate, and lightweight. It is distributed as the fastembed package and built with Poetry under an Apache-2.0 license.

You need a lightweight Python way to produce embeddings for retrieval or RAG pipelines.

Use it to

  • Generate embeddings for vector search
  • Build RAG retrieval pipelines
  • Embed text for semantic retrieval
  • Integrate embeddings into Python toolchains

For Python developers building search or RAG systems

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rag
Language
Python
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Apache-2.0
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2026-09-16
Latest release
0.0.5 · 2023-10-05
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