multilingual-e5-small vs paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-onnx-Q
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
intfloat · A · Open weights
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
9.2 M
mit · commercial OK
Qdrant · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
512
30d
378 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-onnx-Q |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | — |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 9,177,881 | 377,967 |
| Downloads all time | 124.9 M | 2.2 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 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
15.8 M363 K
multilingual-e5-small
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2-onnx-Q
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB