multilingual-e5-small vs vietnamese-bi-encoder

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

intfloat · A
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
15.6 M
mit · commercial OK
bkai-foundation-models · B
Params
130 M
Context
256
30d
492 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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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 15,601,118 491,597
Downloads all time 94.4 M 3.0 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

15.8 M489 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
✅ Runs comfortably
vietnamese-bi-encoder · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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