multilingual-e5-small vs all-MiniLM-L12-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
intfloat · A · Open weights
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
9.4 M
mit · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B · Open weights
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
2.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | all-MiniLM-L12-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 30 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 9,411,746 | 2,479,152 |
| Downloads all time | 130.6 M | 258.2 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
12.6 M2.4 M
multilingual-e5-small
all-MiniLM-L12-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
all-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB