t5-base vs opus-mt-fr-de

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

google-t5 · A · Open weights
Params
220 M
Context
—
30d
1.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Helsinki-NLP · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
512
30d
41 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification t5-base opus-mt-fr-de
Parameters 220 M —
Architecture T5ForConditionalGeneration MarianMTModel
Context length — 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 4 —
Downloads 30d 1,915,134 41,296
Downloads all time 175.9 M 710 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS —
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

4.5 M41 K
t5-base opus-mt-fr-de

VRAM side by side

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

t5-base · fp16 1.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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