bge-small-en-v1.5 vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
600 M
Context
32,768
30d
9.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | bge-small-en-v1.5 | Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 30 M | 600 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 512 | 32,768 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 47,585,573 | 9,129,136 |
| Downloads all time | 556.3 M | 102.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-09-12 | 2025-06-03 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
74.3 M6.6 M
bge-small-en-v1.5
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
bge-small-en-v1.5 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B · fp16
1.9 GB / 24 GB