multilingual-e5-large vs lambda

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

intfloat · A
Params
560 M
Context
512
30d
7.5 M
mit · commercial OK
unslothai · B
Params
Context
30d
504 K

Specification comparison

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Specification multilingual-e5-large lambda
Parameters 560 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel LlamaModel
Context length 512
Licence mit
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 94
Downloads 30d 7,485,047 504,015
Downloads all time 97.6 M 12.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-06-30 2024-03-31

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

8.3 M504 K
multilingual-e5-large lambda

VRAM side by side

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

lambda · fp16 0.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
multilingual-e5-large · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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