multilingual-e5-small vs plamo-embedding-1b
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
intfloat · A · Open weights
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
9.3 M
mit · commercial OK
pfnet · B · Open weights
Params
1.1 B
Context
4,096
30d
376 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | plamo-embedding-1b |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 1.1 B |
| Architecture | BertModel | PlamoBiModel |
| Context length | 512 | 4,096 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 9,278,347 | 375,694 |
| Downloads all time | 125.4 M | 1.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2025-04-11 |
Download trend
90 days of snapshots recorded — chart in 0 days.
125.4 M
multilingual-e5-small · all-time downloads
1.1 M
plamo-embedding-1b · all-time downloads
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
plamo-embedding-1b · fp16
3.0 GB / 24 GB