bge-m3 vs all-mpnet-base-v2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
Context
8,192
30d
38.0 M
mit · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
22.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 all-mpnet-base-v2
Parameters 110 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel MPNetForMaskedLM
Context length 8,192 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 38,045,991 22,564,768
Downloads all time 309.1 M 1.3 B
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Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

38.2 M22.6 M
bge-m3 all-mpnet-base-v2

VRAM side by side

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

all-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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