bge-large-en-v1.5 vs pplx-embed-v1-0.6b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
340 M
Context
512
30d
13.1 M
mit · commercial OK
perplexity-ai · B
Params
600 M
Context
32,768
30d
461 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-large-en-v1.5 pplx-embed-v1-0.6b
Parameters 340 M 600 M
Architecture BertModel PPLXQwen3Model
Context length 512 32,768
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 13,117,894 460,968
Downloads all time 144.9 M 2.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2026-01-14

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

13.4 M461 K
bge-large-en-v1.5 pplx-embed-v1-0.6b

VRAM side by side

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

bge-large-en-v1.5 · fp16 2.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
pplx-embed-v1-0.6b · fp16 3.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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