bge-small-en-v1.5 vs jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
54.0 M
mit · commercial OK
jinaai · B · Open weights
Params
1.6 B
Context
—
30d
975 K
cc-by-nc-4.0 · non-commercial

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-small-en-v1.5 jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small
Parameters 30 M 1.6 B
Architecture BertModel JinaEmbeddingsV5OmniModel
Context length 512 —
Licence mit cc-by-nc-4.0
Commercial use Allowed Not allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 54,048,872 975,261
Downloads all time 528.7 M 1.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2026-04-01

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

74.3 M413 K
bge-small-en-v1.5 jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small

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
jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small · fp16 4.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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