bge-small-zh-v1.5 vs bge-small-en-v1.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
5.1 M
mit · commercial OK
Xenova · B
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
433 K

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-small-zh-v1.5 bge-small-en-v1.5
Parameters 20 M 30 M
Architecture BertModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence mit
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 5,051,490 432,958
Downloads all time 28.7 M 2.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2023-09-13

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

5.1 M412 K
bge-small-zh-v1.5 bge-small-en-v1.5

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

bge-small-zh-v1.5 · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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