multilingual-e5-base vs snowflake-arctic-embed-l
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-base | snowflake-arctic-embed-l |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 280 M | 334 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 7,570,279 | 480,165 |
| Downloads all time | 65.4 M | 2.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 22.831 | 72.76 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 90.603786363868 | 78.314778613216 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 44.056666383709 | 35.918044248788 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 73.380750300705 | 68.886069275421 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-05-19 | 2024-04-12 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
7.6 M430 K
multilingual-e5-base
snowflake-arctic-embed-l
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-base · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB
snowflake-arctic-embed-l · fp16
2.0 GB / 24 GB