granite-embedding-small-english-r2 vs multilingual-e5-small
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
ibm-granite · A · Open weights
Params
50 M
Context
8,192
30d
5.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-embedding-small-english-r2 | multilingual-e5-small |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 50 M | 120 M |
| Architecture | ModernBertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 8,192 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 5,936,152 | 476,929 |
| Downloads all time | 30.9 M | 5.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-07-17 | 2023-07-01 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
6.4 M383 K
granite-embedding-small-english-r2
multilingual-e5-small
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
granite-embedding-small-english-r2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
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