multilingual-e5-base vs gte-large
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-base | gte-large |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 280 M | 340 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 7,570,279 | 615,900 |
| Downloads all time | 65.4 M | 30.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 22.831 | 70.555 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 90.603786363868 | 92.511121694318 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 44.056666383709 | 48.44785682573 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 73.380750300705 | 66.236843539509 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-05-19 | 2023-07-27 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
7.6 M616 K
multilingual-e5-base
gte-large
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
gte-large · fp16
1.3 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-base · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB