multilingual-e5-small vs LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 8 November 2026.

intfloat · A · Open weights
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
9.4 M
mit · commercial OK
McGill-NLP · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
8,192
30d
396 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification multilingual-e5-small LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp
Parameters 120 M 8.0 B
Architecture BertModel LlamaEncoderModel
Context length 512 8,192
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 94 1
Downloads 30d 9,411,746 396,165
Downloads all time 130.6 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-06-30 2024-04-30

Download trend

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

12.6 M377 K
multilingual-e5-small LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp

VRAM side by side

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

multilingual-e5-small · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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