bge-m3 vs LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp

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
McGill-NLP · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
8,192
30d
396 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp
Parameters — 8.0 B
Architecture XLMRobertaModel LlamaEncoderModel
Context length 8,192 8,192
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 29,564,329 396,165
Downloads all time 362.4 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2024-04-30

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

38.2 M377 K
bge-m3 LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp

VRAM side by side

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

LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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