multilingual-e5-small vs stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
intfloat · A · Open weights
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
9.4 M
mit · commercial OK
sentence-transformers-testing · B · Open weights
Params
<0.1 M
Context
512
30d
860 K
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | <0.1 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 94 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 9,411,746 | 860,199 |
| Downloads all time | 130.6 M | 15.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2023-11-06 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
12.6 M860 K
multilingual-e5-small
stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors · fp16
0.5 GB / 24 GB
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB