bge-base-en 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 | multilingual-e5-small |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 110 M | 120 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 2,427,397 | 476,929 |
| Downloads all time | 12.7 M | 5.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-08-05 | 2023-07-01 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
2.5 M383 K
bge-base-en
multilingual-e5-small
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-base-en · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB