Qdrant Tests Cohere Embed 5: One Vector Per Page Beats ColPali at 64 Bytes

Qdrant's benchmarks show Cohere Embed 5 Pro achieves 65.8 nDCG@10 on ViDoRe V3 with just one dense vector per page, beating ColPali, while a 64-byte compression per page retains 99.2% of quality, and Rerank 5 Pro lifts nDCG@10 from 66.8 to 73.2.

2026-10-23 ~ 2026-10-23 · 4 related posts

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• Embed 5 Pro scores 65.8 nDCG@10 on ViDoRe V3, second only to ColEmbed-3B-v2 — qdrant_engine · 2026-10-23
• Cohere Rerank 5 Pro lifts PDF retrieval nDCG@10 from 66.8 to 73.2 in Qdrant tests — qdrant_engine · 2026-10-23