bge-m3 vs USER-bge-m3

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
deepvk · B · Open weights
Params
360 M
Context
8,192
30d
361 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-m3 USER-bge-m3
Parameters — 360 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel XLMRobertaModel
Context length 8,192 8,192
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 29,564,329 361,260
Downloads all time 362.4 M 6.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-01-27 2024-07-05

Download trend

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

38.2 M361 K
bge-m3 USER-bge-m3

VRAM side by side

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

USER-bge-m3 · fp16 2.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

Adjacent comparisons