bge-base-en-v1.5 vs multilingual-e5-large
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
intfloat · B · Open weights
Params
560 M
Context
512
30d
7.1 M
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-base-en-v1.5 | multilingual-e5-large |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 110 M | 560 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | XLMRobertaModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 94 |
| Downloads 30d | 8,332,043 | 7,131,743 |
| Downloads all time | 586.3 M | 121.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 75.747 | 30.725 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 93.377410300062 | 93.485548197173 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 48.146462697783 | 46.75122173518 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 70.169022526114 | 73.327000921401 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-11 | 2023-06-30 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
12.2 M6.5 M
bge-base-en-v1.5
multilingual-e5-large
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-base-en-v1.5 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-large · fp16
3.0 GB / 24 GB