bge-m3 vs distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
8,192
30d
29.6 M
mit · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B · Open weights
Params
130 M
Context
512
30d
1.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1
Parameters — 130 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel DistilBertModel
Context length 8,192 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 14
Downloads 30d 29,564,329 1,667,754
Downloads all time 362.4 M 29.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

38.2 M952 K
bge-m3 distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1

VRAM side by side

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

distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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