bge-m3 vs multilingual-e5-small
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
intfloat · B · Open weights
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
9.4 M
mit · commercial OK
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 | 29,564,329 | 9,411,746 |
| Downloads all time | 362.4 M | 130.6 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
38.2 M9.2 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