multilingual-e5-large vs mxbai-embed-large-v1
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
mixedbread-ai · B · Open weights
Params
340 M
Context
512
30d
2.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-large | mxbai-embed-large-v1 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 560 M | 340 M |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 7,131,743 | 2,306,624 |
| Downloads all time | 121.1 M | 97.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | GGUF, SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 30.725 | 81.508 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 93.485548197173 | 93.829783389729 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 46.75122173518 | 48.741632277516 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 73.327000921401 | 68.927365733598 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2024-03-07 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
7.6 M1.9 M
multilingual-e5-large
mxbai-embed-large-v1
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
mxbai-embed-large-v1 · fp16
1.3 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-large · fp16
3.0 GB / 24 GB