bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 vs LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 8 November 2026.

datasocietyco · A · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
2.9 M
McGill-NLP · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
8,192
30d
396 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp
Parameters 110 M 8.0 B
Architecture BertModel LlamaEncoderModel
Context length 512 8,192
Licence — mit
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 2,895,119 396,165
Downloads all time 19.1 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-09 2024-04-30

Download trend

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

4.3 M377 K
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp

VRAM side by side

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

bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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