multilingual-e5-small vs langcache-embed-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
redis · B · Open weights
Params
149 M
Context
8,192
30d
514 K

Specification comparison

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Specification multilingual-e5-small langcache-embed-v1
Parameters 120 M 149 M
Architecture BertModel ModernBertModel
Context length 512 8,192
Licence mit —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 94 —
Downloads 30d 9,411,746 514,355
Downloads all time 130.6 M 2.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-06-30 2025-03-21

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

12.6 M381 K
multilingual-e5-small langcache-embed-v1

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

multilingual-e5-small · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
langcache-embed-v1 · fp16 1.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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