jina-embeddings-v3 vs multilingual-e5-large-instruct

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

jinaai · A

Params

570 M

Context

8,192

30d

3.2 M

cc-by-nc-4.0 · non-commercial

intfloat · B

Params

560 M

Context

512

30d

2.3 M

mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	jina-embeddings-v3	multilingual-e5-large-instruct
Parameters	570 M	560 M
Architecture	XLMRobertaModel	XLMRobertaModel
Context length	8,192	512
Licence	cc-by-nc-4.0	mit
Commercial use	Not allowed	Allowed
Languages	94	94
Downloads 30d	3,241,662	2,288,112
Downloads all time	77.2 M	30.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-09-05	2024-02-08

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

3.2 M2.1 M

jina-embeddings-v3 multilingual-e5-large-instruct

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

jina-embeddings-v3 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

multilingual-e5-large-instruct · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably