bge-small-en-v1.5 vs granite-embedding-small-english-r2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
ibm-granite · B
Params
50 M
Context
8,192
30d
3.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-small-en-v1.5 | granite-embedding-small-english-r2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 30 M | 50 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | ModernBertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 8,192 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 72,352,442 | 3,769,426 |
| Downloads all time | 361.0 M | 14.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-12 | 2025-07-17 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
72.9 M3.3 M
bge-small-en-v1.5
granite-embedding-small-english-r2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
granite-embedding-small-english-r2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB