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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

sentence-transformers · A
Params
280 M
Context
512
30d
9.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
thenlper · B
Params
340 M
Context
512
30d
616 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 gte-large
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 9,948,737 615,900
Downloads all time 133.8 M 30.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2023-07-27

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

11.6 M616 K
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 gte-large

VRAM side by side

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

gte-large · fp16 1.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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