multilingual-e5-large vs specter2_base
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-large | specter2_base |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 560 M | — |
| Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 7,173,073 | 1,176,292 |
| Downloads all time | 109.3 M | 11.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2023-02-16 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
8.3 M629 K
multilingual-e5-large
specter2_base
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-large · fp16
3.0 GB / 24 GB