bge-small-en-v1.5 vs 1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
72.4 M
mit · commercial OK
unslothai · B
Params
Context
2,048
30d
1.1 M

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-small-en-v1.5 1
Parameters 30 M
Architecture BertModel LlamaModel
Context length 512 2,048
Licence mit
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 72,352,442 1,098,785
Downloads all time 361.0 M 81.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2024-07-14

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

72.9 M1.1 M
bge-small-en-v1.5 1

VRAM side by side

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

1 · fp16 0.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16 0.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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