bge-small-en-v1.5 vs UAE-Large-V1

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
WhereIsAI · B · Open weights
Params
340 M
Context
512
30d
1.0 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification bge-small-en-v1.5 UAE-Large-V1
Parameters 30 M 340 M
Architecture BertModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 47,585,573 1,010,622
Downloads all time 556.3 M 52.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
MTEB ArguAna (reported) 72.191 80.797
MTEB BIOSSES (reported) 83.892272988134 86.210398097344
MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported) 47.402770198164 49.025807591542
MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported) 40.015454369742 43.093601280164
MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported) 38.467181385006 39.375016875004
MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported) 34.719496037339 37.234014051559
MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported) 74.421690190388 77.09547992789
MTEB Banking77Classification (reported) 85.714935664664 87.681093819435
MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval (reported) 29.587 30.232
MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) 92.738840013315 92.825907343378
MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) 46.559367867279 47.902578160328
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) 68.091494561709 69.409779347698
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2023-12-04

Download trend

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

74.3 M628 K
bge-small-en-v1.5 UAE-Large-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
UAE-Large-V1 · fp16 2.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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