multilingual-e5-base vs LaBSE
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-base | LaBSE |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 280 M | 471 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 109 |
| Downloads 30d | 7,570,279 | 686,571 |
| Downloads all time | 65.4 M | 1.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-05-19 | 2022-03-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
7.6 M432 K
multilingual-e5-base
LaBSE
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-base · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB
LaBSE · fp16
2.6 GB / 24 GB