multilingual-e5-small vs bm25
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
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 | 12,267,694 | 1,048,277 |
| Downloads all time | 114.4 M | 9.2 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 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
15.8 M926 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