multilingual-e5-base vs gte-multilingual-base
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-base | gte-multilingual-base |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 280 M | 310 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | NewModel |
| Context length | 512 | 8,192 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 75 |
| Downloads 30d | 7,570,279 | 1,420,285 |
| Downloads all time | 65.4 M | 31.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 90.603786363868 | 80.717625 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (de) (reported) | 41.271025564425 | 40.108 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 44.056666383709 | 43.642 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 73.380750300705 | 75.955223880597 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-05-19 | 2024-07-20 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
7.6 M1.2 M
multilingual-e5-base
gte-multilingual-base
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
gte-multilingual-base · fp16
1.2 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-base · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB