bge-m3 vs plamo-embedding-1b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
8,192
30d
29.8 M
mit · commercial OK
pfnet · B · Open weights
Params
1.1 B
Context
4,096
30d
376 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 plamo-embedding-1b
Parameters — 1.1 B
Architecture XLMRobertaModel PlamoBiModel
Context length 8,192 4,096
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 29,783,764 375,694
Downloads all time 345.7 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2025-04-11

Download trend

90 days of snapshots recorded — chart in 0 days.

345.7 M
bge-m3 · all-time downloads
1.1 M
plamo-embedding-1b · all-time downloads

VRAM side by side

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

plamo-embedding-1b · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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