bge-m3 vs LaBSE

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

BAAI · A
Params
Context
8,192
30d
35.0 M
mit · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B
Params
470 M
Context
512
30d
764 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 LaBSE
Parameters 470 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel BertModel
Context length 8,192 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 110
Downloads 30d 34,991,851 764,165
Downloads all time 250.3 M 26.6 M
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Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

35.5 M745 K
bge-m3 LaBSE

VRAM side by side

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

LaBSE · fp16 2.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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