multilingual-e5-large-instruct vs w2v-bert-2.0
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
intfloat · A · Open weights
Params
560 M
Context
512
30d
1.7 M
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-large-instruct | w2v-bert-2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 560 M | 580 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | Wav2Vec2BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | — |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 96 |
| Downloads 30d | 1,746,705 | 1,328,419 |
| Downloads all time | 35.8 M | 42.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-02-08 | 2023-12-19 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.4 M1.1 M
multilingual-e5-large-instruct
w2v-bert-2.0
A overtook B on 9 Oct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-large-instruct · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB
w2v-bert-2.0 · fp16
3.1 GB / 24 GB