multilingual-e5-small vs multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-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
sentence-transformers · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
1.5 M

Specification comparison

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Specification multilingual-e5-small multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1
Parameters 120 M 110 M
Architecture BertModel MPNetForMaskedLM
Context length 512 512
Licence mit —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 94 1
Downloads 30d 9,411,746 1,476,000
Downloads all time 130.6 M 81.5 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

12.6 M1.4 M
multilingual-e5-small multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-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
multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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