multilingual-e5-large-instruct vs bge-reranker-large
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-large-instruct | bge-reranker-large |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 560 M | 560 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | XLMRobertaForSequenceClassification |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 2 |
| Downloads 30d | 1,575,893 | 2,815,668 |
| Downloads all time | 32.9 M | 34.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-02-08 | 2023-09-12 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
2.8 M1.6 M
multilingual-e5-large-instruct
bge-reranker-large
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-large-instruct · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB
bge-reranker-large · fp16
3.0 GB / 24 GB