multilingual-e5-small vs vietnamese-bi-encoder
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
bkai-foundation-models · B
Params
130 M
Context
256
30d
454 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | multilingual-e5-small | vietnamese-bi-encoder |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 130 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | RobertaModel |
| Context length | 512 | 256 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 94 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 12,267,694 | 453,761 |
| Downloads all time | 114.4 M | 3.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-06-30 | 2023-09-09 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
15.8 M440 K
multilingual-e5-small
vietnamese-bi-encoder
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
multilingual-e5-small · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
vietnamese-bi-encoder · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB