SAVRN Model Hub · Comparisons
bge-base-en vs mxbai-embed-large-v1
Bge-base-en has 109M parameters and mxbai-embed-large-v1 has 335M parameters; bge-base-en is released under MIT License and mxbai-embed-large-v1 under Apache License 2.0; at 16-bit, bge-base-en needs about 0.3 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour) and mxbai-embed-large-v1 about 0.8 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour).
| Field | bge-base-en BAAI/bge-base-en | mxbai-embed-large-v1 mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1 |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence | Mixedbread |
| Task | Feature extraction | Feature extraction |
| Modality | Text | Text |
| Parameters, as reported | 109M parameters | 335M parameters |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Library | transformers | sentence-transformers |
| Context length | 512 tokens | 512 tokens |
| Repository size | 1.3 GB | 5.4 GB |
| Artifact formats | safetensors, onnx, pytorch | safetensors, gguf, onnx, openvino |
| License | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Access | Open weights, no gate | Open weights, no gate |
| Memory at 16-bit (weights and margin) | 0.3 GB | 0.8 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 16-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Memory at 4-bit (weights and margin) | 0.1 GB | 0.2 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 4-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Revision viewed | b737bf5dcc6e | b33106f585b9 |
| Downloads reported by the hub | 2.5M | 2.5M |
| Last observed | 2026-09-19 | 2026-09-19 |
An evaluation row appears only where at least two of these models report the same benchmark with the same stated configuration, metric, unit and setup. Different evaluators stay named in each cell. Values are shown as reported: no unit conversion, no ranking.
Other Reported Results
These results are listed for each model on its own, because the conditions needed to compare them are not stated or do not match. Two results that leave a condition blank are not assumed to share it.
bge-base-en
| Benchmark | Conditions | Result | Reported by | Revision | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established | 75.7313 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established | 38.9728 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established | 69.8174 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established | 92.5652 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established | 88.8882 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established | 92.5482 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established | 46.91 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established | 46.2854 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 38.834 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 53.564 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 54.23 | BAAI Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 54.235 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 49.49 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 51.784 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 39.26 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 53.744 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 54.41 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 54.415 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 49.656 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 52.018 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 38.834 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 61.487 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 64.303 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 64.408 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 53.116 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 57.248 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 38.834 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 8.663 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 0.989 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 0.1 | BAAI Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 21.219 | BAAI Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 14.737 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 38.834 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 86.629 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 98.862 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 99.644 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 63.656 | BAAI Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 73.684 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P | Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established | 48.8848 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S | Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established | 42.8505 | BAAI Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
mxbai-embed-large-v1
| Benchmark | Conditions | Result | Reported by | Revision | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established | 75.0448 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established | 37.7362 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established | 68.9274 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established | 93.8403 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established | 90.9319 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification | Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established | 93.8298 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established | 49.184 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) | Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established | 48.7416 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 41.252 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 57.778 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 58.233 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 58.237 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 53.45 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 56.376 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 41.679 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 57.927 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 58.389 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 58.392 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 53.651 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 56.521 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 41.252 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 66.018 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 67.774 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 67.844 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 57.372 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 62.646 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 41.252 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 9.189 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 0.991 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 0.1 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 22.902 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric precision_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 16.302 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_1Comparison conditions not established | 41.252 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_10Comparison conditions not established | 91.892 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_100Comparison conditions not established | 99.147 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_1000Comparison conditions not established | 99.644 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_3Comparison conditions not established | 68.706 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
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| MTEB ArguAna | Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric recall_at_5Comparison conditions not established | 81.508 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P | Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established | 48.9729 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
| MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S | Configuration defaultTask ClusteringMetric v_measureComparison conditions not established | 42.9807 | mixedbread-ai Publisher reported |
Evaluated revision not stated | — |
SAVRN's Notes on bge-base-en
The publisher's own page steers you to bge-base-en-v1.5 as the replacement, so the first question is why this one. Usually the answer is a vector store already built on it; re-embedding is the switching cost. The hardware numbers barely register: 109 million parameters, 0.2 GB of weights at 16-bit, 0.3 GB to run. A 192 GB MI300X at $1.85 an hour is wasted on this alone; we run models this size as a sidecar beside a generation model. The 512-token context is the binding limit; anything longer gets chunked.
MIT asks for one thing, the copyright and permission notice, and gives commercial use, modification and redistribution in return. The 1.3 GB download carries three formats, safetensors, ONNX and PyTorch, in float32, so pick one. And check the dates: released August 5, 2023, last updated April 17, 2024, and with the publisher pointing elsewhere this is a dependency you maintain yourself.
SAVRN's Notes on mxbai-embed-large-v1
Every query you send this embedding model for retrieval needs the publisher's search prompt ahead of it; passages need none. Sizing is easy: 335M parameters, 0.8 GB of memory at 16-bit, and at $1.85 per hour on-demand for a single 192 GB MI300X, our cheapest listed option, the card spends most of its life waiting for text. The 512 token context is the practical limit, a short passage per call; plan your chunking around it.
Deployment is simple under Apache 2.0: commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted, you keep the license, copyright notices and any NOTICE file, state significant changes, and contributors give an express patent grant. Before committing, note the download is 21 files and 5.36 GB across safetensors, gguf, onnx and openvino, so pull only what your stack reads, and that the evaluations are publisher-reported MTEB classification numbers; run your own retrieval set first.
Questions
Which is larger, bge-base-en or mxbai-embed-large-v1?
mxbai-embed-large-v1 (335M parameters) is larger than bge-base-en (109M parameters), by the parameter counts their publishers report.
Which is cheaper to run, bge-base-en or mxbai-embed-large-v1?
At 4-bit, bge-base-en fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour and mxbai-embed-large-v1 on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.
Can I use bge-base-en commercially?
Yes. bge-base-en is released under MIT License. The MIT License is a short permissive license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included.
Can I use mxbai-embed-large-v1 commercially?
Yes. mxbai-embed-large-v1 is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.