paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.
sentence-transformers · A
Params
120 M
Context
512
30d
45.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 | bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 120 M | 110 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 50 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 45,855,533 | 4,206,919 |
| Downloads all time | 607.2 M | 13.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2025-01-09 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)
60.0 M779 K
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB
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