multilingual-e5-small vs text2vec-base-chinese
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | text2vec-base-chinese |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 100 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 15,601,118 | 824,155 |
| Downloads all time | 94.4 M | 34.7 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
15.8 M784 K
multilingual-e5-small
text2vec-base-chinese
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
text2vec-base-chinese · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB