bge-m3 vs gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct

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

BAAI · A
Params
Context
8,192
30d
35.0 M
mit · commercial OK
Alibaba-NLP · B
Params
1.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
1.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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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
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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
✅ Runs comfortably

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