bge-base-en-v1.5 vs specter2_base

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

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
8.3 M
mit · commercial OK
allenai · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
512
30d
662 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-base-en-v1.5 specter2_base
Parameters 110 M —
Architecture BertModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 8,332,043 661,638
Downloads all time 586.3 M 12.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS —
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-11 2023-02-16

Download trend

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

12.2 M629 K
bge-base-en-v1.5 specter2_base

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

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