multilingual-e5-small vs bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 110 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 94 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 15,601,118 | 1,819,048 |
| Downloads all time | 94.4 M | 6.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2025-01-09 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
15.8 M779 K
multilingual-e5-small
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
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