multilingual-e5-small vs vietnamese-bi-encoder
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
bkai-foundation-models · B · Open weights
Params
130 M
Context
256
30d
968 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 | 9,411,746 | 968,379 |
| Downloads all time | 130.6 M | 5.0 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
12.6 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