bge-m3 vs embeddinggemma-300m

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

BAAI · A
Params
Context
8,192
30d
35.0 M
mit · commercial OK
google · B
Params
300 M
Context
30d
2.1 M
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 embeddinggemma-300m
Parameters 300 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel Gemma3TextModel
Context length 8,192
Licence mit gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages
Downloads 30d 34,991,851 2,060,232
Downloads all time 250.3 M 14.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2025-07-17

Download trend

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

35.5 M1.9 M
bge-m3 embeddinggemma-300m

VRAM side by side

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

embeddinggemma-300m · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

Adjacent comparisons