bge-small-en-v1.5 vs w2v-bert-2.0

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
72.4 M
mit · commercial OK
facebook · B
Params
580 M
Context
30d
1.4 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-small-en-v1.5 w2v-bert-2.0
Parameters 30 M 580 M
Architecture BertModel Wav2Vec2BertModel
Context length 512
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 96
Downloads 30d 72,352,442 1,359,395
Downloads all time 361.0 M 37.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2023-12-19

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

72.9 M1.4 M
bge-small-en-v1.5 w2v-bert-2.0

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
w2v-bert-2.0 · fp16 3.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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