bge-small-en-v1.5 vs KURE-v1

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
nlpai-lab · B · Open weights
Params
568 M
Context
8,192
30d
578 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification bge-small-en-v1.5 KURE-v1
Parameters 30 M 568 M
Architecture BertModel XLMRobertaModel
Context length 512 8,192
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 54,048,872 577,859
Downloads all time 528.7 M 3.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2024-12-18

Download trend

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

74.3 M400 K
bge-small-en-v1.5 KURE-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
KURE-v1 · fp16 3.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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