multilingual-e5-large vs bge-reranker-large

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

intfloat · A · Open weights
Params
560 M
Context
512
30d
7.1 M
mit · commercial OK
BAAI · B · Open weights
Params
560 M
Context
512
30d
2.0 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification multilingual-e5-large 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 7,131,743 2,041,111
Downloads all time 121.1 M 38.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-06-30 2023-09-12

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

7.6 M1.9 M
multilingual-e5-large bge-reranker-large

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

multilingual-e5-large · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
bge-reranker-large · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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