multilingual-e5-small vs all-distilroberta-v1

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

intfloat · A
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
15.6 M
mit · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B
Params
80 M
Context
512
30d
2.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification multilingual-e5-small all-distilroberta-v1
Parameters 120 M 80 M
Architecture BertModel RobertaForMaskedLM
Context length 512 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 94 1
Downloads 30d 15,601,118 2,318,073
Downloads all time 94.4 M 40.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-06-30 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

15.8 M2.3 M
multilingual-e5-small all-distilroberta-v1

VRAM side by side

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

all-distilroberta-v1 · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
multilingual-e5-small · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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