paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 vs e5-large-v2

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

sentence-transformers · A
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
11.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
intfloat · B
Params
340 M
Context
512
30d
2.6 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 e5-large-v2
Parameters 280 M 340 M
Architecture XLMRobertaModel BertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 50 1
Downloads 30d 11,516,808 2,564,065
Downloads all time 117.9 M 41.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2023-05-19

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

11.6 M2.6 M
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 e5-large-v2

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
e5-large-v2 · fp16 2.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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