bge-m3 vs msmarco-bert-base-dot-v5

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
sentence-transformers · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
528 K

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 msmarco-bert-base-dot-v5
Parameters — 110 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel BertModel
Context length 8,192 512
Licence mit —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 29,564,329 528,180
Downloads all time 362.4 M 12.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

38.2 M413 K
bge-m3 msmarco-bert-base-dot-v5

VRAM side by side

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

msmarco-bert-base-dot-v5 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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