multilingual-e5-small vs msmarco-distilbert-base-tas-b
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
sentence-transformers · B
Params
66 M
Context
512
30d
463 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | msmarco-distilbert-base-tas-b |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 66 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | DistilBertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 12,267,694 | 462,780 |
| Downloads all time | 114.4 M | 12.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2022-03-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
15.8 M416 K
multilingual-e5-small
msmarco-distilbert-base-tas-b
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
msmarco-distilbert-base-tas-b · fp16
0.8 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB