bge-m3 vs paraphrase-albert-small-v2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
Context
8,192
30d
37.6 M
mit · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B
Params
10 M
Context
512
30d
551 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 paraphrase-albert-small-v2
Parameters 10 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel AlbertModel
Context length 8,192 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 37,633,121 551,200
Downloads all time 310.2 M 9.0 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 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

38.2 M498 K
bge-m3 paraphrase-albert-small-v2

VRAM side by side

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

paraphrase-albert-small-v2 · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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