bge-m3 vs embeddinggemma-300m

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
google · B · Open weights
Params
300 M
Context
—
30d
1.2 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 29,564,329 1,160,876
Downloads all time 362.4 M 22.1 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

38.2 M1.2 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