multilingual-e5-small vs gte-base-en-v1.5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
intfloat · A · Open weights
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
9.2 M
mit · commercial OK
Alibaba-NLP · B · Open weights
Params
137 M
Context
8,192
30d
458 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | gte-base-en-v1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 137 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | NewModel |
| Context length | 512 | 8,192 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 9,177,881 | 458,305 |
| Downloads all time | 124.9 M | 20.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 19.061 | 78.094 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 88.655562950325 | 92.997097724052 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 43.731873486542 | 52.98175784163 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 67.954536791031 | 68.511015109986 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2024-04-20 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
15.8 M399 K
multilingual-e5-small
gte-base-en-v1.5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
gte-base-en-v1.5 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB