bge-m3 vs distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
sentence-transformers · B · Open weights
Params
130 M
Context
512
30d
879 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | bge-m3 | distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | — | 130 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | DistilBertModel |
| Context length | 8,192 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 50 |
| Downloads 30d | 29,564,329 | 878,738 |
| Downloads all time | 362.4 M | 49.4 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 M635 K
bge-m3
distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v2 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB