bge-m3 vs Octen-Embedding-8B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 19 October 2026.

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
8,192
30d
29.6 M
mit · commercial OK
Octen · B · Open weights
Params
7.6 B
Context
40,960
30d
382 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 Octen-Embedding-8B
Parameters — 7.6 B
Architecture XLMRobertaModel Qwen3Model
Context length 8,192 40,960
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 3
Downloads 30d 29,564,329 382,321
Downloads all time 362.4 M 1.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2025-12-23

Download trend

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

38.2 M382 K
bge-m3 Octen-Embedding-8B

VRAM side by side

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

Octen-Embedding-8B · fp16 18.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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