bge-large-en-v1.5 vs paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-large-en-v1.5 | paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 340 M | 120 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 8,166,171 | 407,646 |
| Downloads all time | 179.7 M | 15.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-12 | 2023-05-15 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
13.8 M408 K
bge-large-en-v1.5
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-large-en-v1.5 · fp16
2.0 GB / 24 GB