bge-small-en-v1.5 vs jina-embeddings-v3
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-small-en-v1.5 | jina-embeddings-v3 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 30 M | 570 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | XLMRobertaModel |
| Context length | 512 | 8,192 |
| Licence | mit | cc-by-nc-4.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Not allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 94 |
| Downloads 30d | 64,447,211 | 1,993,730 |
| Downloads all time | 466.2 M | 80.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-12 | 2024-09-05 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
74.3 M1.9 M
bge-small-en-v1.5
jina-embeddings-v3
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB
jina-embeddings-v3 · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB