multilingual-e5-small vs e5-small-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | e5-small-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 30 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 15,601,118 | 739,239 |
| Downloads all time | 94.4 M | 18.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 19.061 | 51.991 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 88.655562950325 | 91.242975214257 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 43.731873486542 | 45.080588703812 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 67.954536791031 | 71.864659463986 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2023-05-19 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
15.8 M720 K
multilingual-e5-small
e5-small-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
e5-small-v2 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB