bge-base-en-v1.5 vs multilingual-e5-small
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-base-en-v1.5 | multilingual-e5-small |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 110 M | 120 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 2,292,931 | 476,929 |
| Downloads all time | 35.1 M | 5.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | — | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-13 | 2023-07-01 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
2.5 M383 K
bge-base-en-v1.5
multilingual-e5-small