bge-large-en-v1.5 vs jina-embeddings-v3

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

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
340 M
Context
512
30d
8.2 M
mit · commercial OK
jinaai · B · Open weights
Params
570 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.5 M
cc-by-nc-4.0 · non-commercial

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-large-en-v1.5 jina-embeddings-v3
Parameters 340 M 570 M
Architecture BertModel XLMRobertaModel
Context length 512 8,192
Licence mit cc-by-nc-4.0
Commercial use Allowed Not allowed
Languages 1 94
Downloads 30d 8,166,171 1,476,769
Downloads all time 179.7 M 83.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2024-09-05

Download trend

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

13.8 M1.5 M
bge-large-en-v1.5 jina-embeddings-v3

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

jina-embeddings-v3 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
bge-large-en-v1.5 · fp16 2.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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