bge-small-en-v1.5 vs SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

BAAI · A · Open weights
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
47.6 M
mit · commercial OK
cambridgeltl · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
1.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-small-en-v1.5 SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext
Parameters 30 M 110 M
Architecture BertModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 47,585,573 1,415,163
Downloads all time 556.3 M 57.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

74.3 M1.4 M
bge-small-en-v1.5 SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext

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
SapBERT-from-PubMedBERT-fulltext · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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