bge-base-en-v1.5 vs jina-embeddings-v2-small-en
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-base-en-v1.5 | jina-embeddings-v2-small-en |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | — | 30 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | JinaBertForMaskedLM |
| Context length | 512 | 8,192 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 2,193,728 | 1,043,157 |
| Downloads all time | 28.6 M | 18.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | — | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-13 | 2023-09-27 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
2.2 M1.0 M
bge-base-en-v1.5
jina-embeddings-v2-small-en
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
jina-embeddings-v2-small-en · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB