bge-large-en-v1.5 vs multilingual-e5-large
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-large-en-v1.5 | multilingual-e5-large |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 340 M | 560 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | XLMRobertaModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 94 |
| Downloads 30d | 13,117,894 | 7,485,047 |
| Downloads all time | 144.9 M | 97.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 77.027 | 30.725 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 92.394770195742 | 93.485548197173 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 47.807127928703 | 46.75122173518 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 69.693866480435 | 73.327000921401 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-12 | 2023-06-30 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
13.4 M7.5 M
bge-large-en-v1.5
multilingual-e5-large
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-large-en-v1.5 · fp16
2.0 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-large · fp16
3.0 GB / 24 GB