multilingual-e5-large vs all-MiniLM-L6-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-large | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 560 M | — |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 7,485,047 | 2,885,743 |
| Downloads all time | 97.6 M | 23.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2023-05-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
8.3 M2.8 M
multilingual-e5-large
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-large · fp16
3.0 GB / 24 GB