multilingual-e5-small vs USER2-base
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
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | USER2-base |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 149 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | ModernBertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 8,192 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 9,177,881 | 739,877 |
| Downloads all time | 124.9 M | 1.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2025-02-25 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
15.8 M411 K
multilingual-e5-small
USER2-base
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
USER2-base · fp16
1.2 GB / 24 GB