bge-m3 vs text2vec-base-chinese

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
8,192
30d
29.6 M
mit · commercial OK
shibing624 · B · Open weights
Params
100 M
Context
512
30d
855 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 text2vec-base-chinese
Parameters — 100 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel BertModel
Context length 8,192 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 29,564,329 854,940
Downloads all time 362.4 M 37.9 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

38.2 M855 K
bge-m3 text2vec-base-chinese

VRAM side by side

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

text2vec-base-chinese · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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