all-mpnet-base-v2 vs bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
20.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
datasocietyco · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
2.9 M

Specification comparison

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Specification all-mpnet-base-v2 bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
Parameters 110 M 110 M
Architecture MPNetForMaskedLM BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 20,462,590 2,895,119
Downloads all time 1.4 B 19.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2025-01-09

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

25.4 M2.5 M
all-mpnet-base-v2 bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

all-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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