bge-small-en-v1.5 vs deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1

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

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
47.6 M
mit · commercial OK
mixedbread-ai · B · Open weights
Params
487 M
Context
512
30d
504 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-small-en-v1.5 deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1
Parameters 30 M 487 M
Architecture BertModel XLMRobertaModel
Context length 512 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 2
Downloads 30d 47,585,573 504,335
Downloads all time 556.3 M 4.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2024-07-12

Download trend

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

74.3 M354 K
bge-small-en-v1.5 deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1

VRAM side by side

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

bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16 0.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
deepset-mxbai-embed-de-large-v1 · fp16 1.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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