bge-small-en-v1.5 vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
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 | 72,352,442 | 9,771,658 |
| Downloads all time | 361.0 M | 74.8 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
72.9 M9.8 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