bge-small-en-v1.5 vs embeddinggemma-2
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 | embeddinggemma-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 30 M | 744 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | EmbeddingGemma2Model |
| Context length | 512 | — |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 47,585,573 | 475,436 |
| Downloads all time | 556.3 M | 571 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-12 | 2026-09-14 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
74.3 M388 K
bge-small-en-v1.5
embeddinggemma-2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB
embeddinggemma-2 · fp16
2.2 GB / 24 GB