multilingual-e5-small vs paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

intfloat · A
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
12.3 M
mit · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
9.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification multilingual-e5-small paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2
Parameters 120 M 280 M
Architecture BertModel XLMRobertaModel
Context length 512 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 94 50
Downloads 30d 12,263,238 9,891,491
Downloads all time 114.0 M 133.4 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 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

15.8 M9.2 M
multilingual-e5-small paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2

VRAM side by side

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

multilingual-e5-small · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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