bge-m3 vs gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Alibaba-NLP · B
Params
1.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
1.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-m3 | gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | — | 1.8 B |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 8,192 | 131,072 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 34,991,851 | 1,178,033 |
| Downloads all time | 250.3 M | 6.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | — | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-01-27 | 2024-06-29 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
35.5 M1.1 M
bge-m3
gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx
12.6 GB / 24 GB