multilingual-e5-small vs distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1
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
130 M
Context
512
30d
1.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 130 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | DistilBertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 14 |
| Downloads 30d | 9,411,746 | 1,667,754 |
| Downloads all time | 130.6 M | 29.4 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 M952 K
multilingual-e5-small
distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB