multilingual-e5-small vs snowflake-arctic-embed-m
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
Snowflake · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
371 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | snowflake-arctic-embed-m |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 110 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 9,177,881 | 370,553 |
| Downloads all time | 124.9 M | 11.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| MTEB ArguAna (reported) | 19.061 | 68.99 |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported) | 88.655562950325 | 82.772048451102 |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported) | 43.731873486542 | 37.980133710535 |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported) | 67.954536791031 | 70.481984482221 |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2024-04-11 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
15.8 M371 K
multilingual-e5-small
snowflake-arctic-embed-m
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
snowflake-arctic-embed-m · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB