bge-m3 vs multilingual-e5-small
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-m3 | multilingual-e5-small |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | — | 120 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 8,192 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 94 |
| Downloads 30d | 34,991,851 | 15,601,118 |
| Downloads all time | 250.3 M | 94.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | — | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-01-27 | 2023-06-30 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
35.5 M15.4 M
bge-m3
multilingual-e5-small
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB