t5-base vs opus-mt-fr-en

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 August 2026.

google-t5 · A
Params
220 M
Context
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Helsinki-NLP · B
Params
80 M
Context
512
30d
729 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification t5-base opus-mt-fr-en
Parameters 220 M 80 M
Architecture T5ForConditionalGeneration MarianMTModel
Context length 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 4
Downloads 30d 3,959,546 729,450
Downloads all time 171.4 M 46.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 29 days (28 Jul – 25 Aug)

4.0 M727 K
t5-base opus-mt-fr-en

VRAM side by side

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

opus-mt-fr-en · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
t5-base · fp16 1.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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