bge-base-en-v1.5 vs jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
10.0 M
mit · commercial OK
jinaai · B
Params
210 M
Context
8,192
30d
515 K
cc-by-nc-4.0 · non-commercial

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-base-en-v1.5 jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano
Parameters 110 M 210 M
Architecture BertModel JinaEmbeddingsV5Model
Context length 512 8,192
Licence mit cc-by-nc-4.0
Commercial use Allowed Not allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 10,035,950 515,012
Downloads all time 554.0 M 2.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-11 2026-01-22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

10.0 M515 K
bge-base-en-v1.5 jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano

VRAM side by side

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

bge-base-en-v1.5 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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