bge-large-en-v1.5 vs multilingual-e5-large-instruct
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-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2,288,112 |
| Downloads all time | 144.9 M | 30.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 77.027 | 31.721 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 92.394770195742 | 96.286809236104 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 47.807127928703 | 55.765103982664 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 69.693866480435 | 70.048367338627 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-12 | 2024-02-08 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
13.4 M2.1 M
bge-large-en-v1.5
multilingual-e5-large-instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-large-instruct · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB
bge-large-en-v1.5 · fp16
2.0 GB / 24 GB