multilingual-e5-small vs e5-base
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | e5-base |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 110 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 12,267,694 | 701,258 |
| Downloads all time | 114.4 M | 7.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 19.061 | 64.296 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 88.655562950325 | 87.941483778274 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 43.731873486542 | 42.230574673549 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 67.954536791031 | 73.894744076932 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2022-12-26 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
15.8 M695 K
multilingual-e5-small
e5-base
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
e5-base · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB