zembed-1 is ZeroEntropy's flagship embedding model for high-accuracy semantic retrieval. It turns text into production-ready vectors for RAG, agents, and search across legal, medical, technical, financial, and code domains.
ZeroEntropy builds Artificial Specialized Intelligence: task-specific models that make repetitive AI workflows faster, cheaper, and more accurate than general frontier LLMs. zembed-1 converts queries and documents into high-quality vector representations that help retrieval systems surface the most relevant context, reduce noise, and improve downstream answer quality.
Built for production AWS deployments, zembed-1 runs as a SageMaker model package in your own account for private real-time inference or batch embedding jobs. It is designed to pair naturally with ZeroEntropy rerankers, while also working as a standalone embedding model for semantic search, hybrid retrieval, clustering, deduplication, and knowledge-base indexing.
Highlights
High-accuracy embeddings for semantic retrieval across legal, manufacturing, financial, medical, STEM, conversational, and code search.
Built for RAG and AI agents - converts queries and documents into vectors that improve recall before reranking or generation.
Enterprise-ready SageMaker deployment with private inference, batch transform support, and transparent per-instance pricing.
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You pay by the host hour for running the zembed-1 embedding model on a chosen instance type. Pricing splits into two modes. Batch mode uses ml.g5 instances in three sizes for offline, bulk processing. Real-time mode uses ml.g6, ml.g6e, ml.g7e, and ml.p5 families across many sizes for live requests. Larger instances within each family carry more compute, so the hourly rate scales with instance size. You select the mode and size that fit your workload and pay only for the hours each instance runs.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What does one HostHrs unit cover for billing?
One HostHrs unit is one hour that a single instance of your chosen type runs the zembed-1 model. You pay for each hour an instance stays active. Charges accrue per running host, so two instances running one hour each count as two host hours.
Am I charged when an instance is stopped or idle?
Software charges meter running host hours only. A fully stopped instance stops accruing software charges. Underlying AWS infrastructure fees for storage or attached resources may still apply separately, but the zembed-1 software charge tracks active running time per host.
How does batch mode billing differ from real-time mode?
Batch mode runs on ml.g5 instances for offline, bulk embedding jobs you start and stop. Real-time mode runs on ml.g6, ml.g6e, ml.g7e, and ml.p5 families to serve live requests continuously. Both bill per host hour, but each fits a different workload pattern.
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An Amazon SageMaker model package is a pre-trained machine learning model ready to use without additional training. Use the model package to create a model on Amazon SageMaker for real-time inference or batch processing. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning models at scale.
Deploy the model on Amazon SageMaker AI using the following options:
Real-time inference
Deploy the model as an API endpoint for your applications. When you send data to the endpoint, SageMaker processes it and returns results by API response. The endpoint runs continuously until you delete it. You're billed for software and SageMaker infrastructure costs while the endpoint runs. AWS Marketplace models don't support Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference. For more information, see Deploy models for real-time inference .
Batch transform
Deploy the model to process batches of data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). SageMaker runs the job, processes your data, and returns results to Amazon S3. When complete, SageMaker stops the model. You're billed for software and SageMaker infrastructure costs only during the batch job. Duration depends on your model, instance type, and dataset size. AWS Marketplace models don't support Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference. For more information, see Batch transform for inference with Amazon SageMaker AI .
Version release notes
Initial release of zembed-1.
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Summary
The input to the embedding model is an embedding_type and a batch of text inputs to embed. embedding_type should be query or document. Example: { "embedding_type": "query", "input": [""], "dimensions": 1280 }
Limitations for input type
There is a limit of 1024 inputs per request and 5MB per request as measured by UTF-8 bytes. Individual input strings may be truncated to 16384 bytes. dimensions is optional.
Input MIME type
application/json
Real-time inference sample input data
{"embedding_type":"query","input":["what is the first step in making apple jam"],"dimensions":1280}
Batch transform sample input data
{"embedding_type":"query","input":["what is the first step in making apple jam"],"dimensions":1280}
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zerank-1 is the flagship reranker by ZeroEntropy, trained with a novel Elo-style pipeline that consistently outperforms every other reranker. By boosting both semantic and lexical search, it delivers more accurate answers across legal, medical, technical, financial, and code domains.
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