multilingual-e5-small vs multilingual-e5-large-onnx
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.
intfloat · A · Open weights
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
9.3 M
mit · commercial OK
Qdrant · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
512
30d
647 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | multilingual-e5-large-onnx |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | — |
| Architecture | BertModel | XLMRobertaModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 9,346,185 | 646,679 |
| Downloads all time | 124.7 M | 3.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2024-01-16 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)
15.8 M390 K
multilingual-e5-small
multilingual-e5-large-onnx
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB