bge-small-en-v1.5 vs multilingual-e5-large-instruct
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 | multilingual-e5-large-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 30 M | 560 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | XLMRobertaModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 94 |
| Downloads 30d | 64,447,211 | 1,575,893 |
| Downloads all time | 466.2 M | 32.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 72.191 | 31.721 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 92.738840013315 | 96.286809236104 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 46.559367867279 | 55.765103982664 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 68.091494561709 | 70.048367338627 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-12 | 2024-02-08 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
74.3 M1.6 M
bge-small-en-v1.5
multilingual-e5-large-instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-large-instruct · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB