bge-small-en-v1.5 vs bge-reranker-large
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-small-en-v1.5 | bge-reranker-large |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 30 M | 560 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | XLMRobertaForSequenceClassification |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 2 |
| Downloads 30d | 47,585,573 | 2,041,111 |
| Downloads all time | 556.3 M | 38.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-12 | 2023-09-12 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
74.3 M1.9 M
bge-small-en-v1.5
bge-reranker-large
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB
bge-reranker-large · fp16
3.0 GB / 24 GB