multilingual-e5-small vs bm25
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
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | bm25 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | — |
| Architecture | BertModel | — |
| Context length | 512 | — |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 18 |
| Downloads 30d | 9,411,746 | 904,577 |
| Downloads all time | 130.6 M | 10.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2024-06-13 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
12.6 M900 K
multilingual-e5-small
bm25
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB