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bge-large-en-v1.5 vs multilingual-e5-large-instruct

Bge-large-en-v1.5 has 335M parameters and multilingual-e5-large-instruct has 560M parameters; both are released under MIT License; at 16-bit, bge-large-en-v1.5 needs about 0.8 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour) and multilingual-e5-large-instruct about 1.3 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour).

Published metadata for 2 models, each read from its own repository.
Field bge-large-en-v1.5
BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5
multilingual-e5-large-instruct
intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct
Publisher Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence Liang Wang
Task Feature extraction Feature extraction
Modality Text Text
Parameters, as reported 335M parameters 560M parameters
Architecture BertModel XLMRobertaModel
Library sentence-transformers sentence-transformers
Context length 512 tokens 514 tokens
Repository size 4.0 GB 3.4 GB
Artifact formats safetensors, onnx, pytorch safetensors, onnx
License mit mit
Access Open weights, no gate Open weights, no gate
Memory at 16-bit (weights and margin) 0.8 GB 1.3 GB
Cheapest GPUs at 16-bit, per hour 1x MI300X, $1.85 1x MI300X, $1.85
Memory at 4-bit (weights and margin) 0.2 GB 0.3 GB
Cheapest GPUs at 4-bit, per hour 1x MI300X, $1.85 1x MI300X, $1.85
Revision viewed d4aa6901d3a4 274baa43b0e1
Downloads reported by the hub 11.6M 1.6M
Last observed 2026-09-18 2026-09-18

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-large-en-v1.5

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightAopsRetrievalMetric BrightAopsRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 6 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightAopsRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightAopsRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 6 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightBiologyLongRetrievalMetric BrightBiologyLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 16.424 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightBiologyLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightBiologyLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 16.424 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightBiologyRetrievalMetric BrightBiologyRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 11.67 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightBiologyRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightBiologyRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 11.67 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightEarthScienceLongRetrievalMetric BrightEarthScienceLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 27.73 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightEarthScienceLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightEarthScienceLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 27.73 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightEarthScienceRetrievalMetric BrightEarthScienceRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 24.558 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightEarthScienceRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightEarthScienceRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 24.558 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightEconomicsLongRetrievalMetric BrightEconomicsLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 20.874 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightEconomicsLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightEconomicsLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 20.874 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightEconomicsRetrievalMetric BrightEconomicsRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 16.605 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightEconomicsRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightEconomicsRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 16.605 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightLeetcodeRetrievalMetric BrightLeetcodeRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 26.681 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightLeetcodeRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightLeetcodeRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 26.681 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightPonyLongRetrievalMetric BrightPonyLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 0.36 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightPonyLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightPonyLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 0.36 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightPonyRetrievalMetric BrightPonyRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 5.724 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightPonyRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightPonyRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 5.724 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightPsychologyLongRetrievalMetric BrightPsychologyLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 11.584 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightPsychologyLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightPsychologyLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 11.584 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightPsychologyRetrievalMetric BrightPsychologyRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 17.464 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightPsychologyRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightPsychologyRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 17.464 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightRoboticsLongRetrievalMetric BrightRoboticsLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 10.891 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightRoboticsLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightRoboticsLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 10.891 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightRoboticsRetrievalMetric BrightRoboticsRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 11.713 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightRoboticsRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightRoboticsRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 11.713 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightStackoverflowLongRetrievalMetric BrightStackoverflowLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 13.248 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightStackoverflowLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightStackoverflowLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 13.248 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightStackoverflowRetrievalMetric BrightStackoverflowRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 10.83 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightStackoverflowRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightStackoverflowRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 10.83 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightSustainableLivingLongRetrievalMetric BrightSustainableLivingLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 16.898 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightSustainableLivingLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightSustainableLivingLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 16.898 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightSustainableLivingRetrievalMetric BrightSustainableLivingRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 13.326 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightSustainableLivingRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightSustainableLivingRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 13.326 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightTheoremQAQuestionsRetrievalMetric BrightTheoremQAQuestionsRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 13.004 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightTheoremQAQuestionsRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightTheoremQAQuestionsRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 13.004 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightTheoremQATheoremsRetrievalMetric BrightTheoremQATheoremsRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 6.9 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26
mteb/BRIGHT Task BrightTheoremQATheoremsRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightTheoremQATheoremsRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established 6.9 Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-03-26

multilingual-e5-large-instruct

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de) Configuration deTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 66.7131 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de) Configuration deTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 79.015 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (de) Configuration deTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 64.8195 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 76.2388 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 39.0735 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 70.0484 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext) Configuration en-extTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 73.8531 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext) Configuration en-extTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 22.4475 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en-ext) Configuration en-extTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 61.0163 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (ja) Configuration jaTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 76.0493 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (ja) Configuration jaTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 23.4498 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (ja) Configuration jaTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 62.5723 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 96.2874 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric apComparison conditions not established 94.845 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification Configuration defaultTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 96.2868 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (de) Configuration deTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 53 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (de) Configuration deTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 52.0083 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 56.716 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) Configuration enTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 55.7651 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (es) Configuration esTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 48.806 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (es) Configuration esTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 48.0823 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (fr) Configuration frTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 48.508 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (fr) Configuration frTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 47.6875 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (ja) Configuration jaTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 47.71 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (ja) Configuration jaTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 47.0587 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (zh) Configuration zhTask ClassificationMetric accuracyComparison conditions not established 44.662 intfloat
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MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (zh) Configuration zhTask ClassificationMetric f1Comparison conditions not established 43.4237 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1Comparison conditions not established 31.721 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_10Comparison conditions not established 49.221 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_100Comparison conditions not established 49.884 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 49.888 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_3Comparison conditions not established 44.31 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric map_at_5Comparison conditions not established 47.276 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1Comparison conditions not established 32.432 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_10Comparison conditions not established 49.5 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_100Comparison conditions not established 50.163 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_1000Comparison conditions not established 50.166 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_3Comparison conditions not established 44.618 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric mrr_at_5Comparison conditions not established 47.541 intfloat
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MTEB ArguAna Configuration defaultTask RetrievalMetric ndcg_at_1Comparison conditions not established 31.721 intfloat
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SAVRN's Notes on bge-large-en-v1.5

Eight tenths of a gigabyte. That is what this embedding model needs at 16-bit, falling to 0.4 GB at 8-bit and 0.2 GB at 4-bit. The cheapest row in our table, one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 per hour on-demand, describes the smallest card a host rents, not anything a 335M-parameter, 24-layer BERT encoder demands; the rest of that card is headroom. The float32 checkpoint is 4.0 GB, five times the 16-bit footprint.

MIT is about as short as a license gets: commercial use, modification and redistribution, if the copyright and permission notices travel with the files. Context is 512 tokens, so longer passages must be chunked, and the publisher's summary steers anyone wanting longer inputs or more languages toward bge-m3, described as taking input up to 8192. The Index carries no host price per token for it, so self-hosting is the route we can price.

SAVRN's Notes on multilingual-e5-large-instruct

Loaded at 16-bit, this encoder needs 1.3 GB of memory for 1.1 GB of weights, a sliver of the 192 GB on the single MI300X our Index lists as the cheapest fit at $1.85 per hour. Nobody rents that card for one 560M-parameter embedding model; it fits beside a serving model on hardware you already run. The output is a 1,024-dimension vector for retrieval, and the publisher initialized it from xlm-roberta-large, so it carries that base's 100 languages.

MIT terms allow commercial use, modification and redistribution provided the copyright and permission notices stay with the files, so building it into a hosted product is simple. Check the 514-token context first: long documents must be chunked before encoding, and that chunking decides recall more than the card does. The Index carries no host prices for it, which fits a model operators run themselves.

Questions

Which is larger, bge-large-en-v1.5 or multilingual-e5-large-instruct?

multilingual-e5-large-instruct (560M parameters) is larger than bge-large-en-v1.5 (335M parameters), by the parameter counts their publishers report.

Which is cheaper to run, bge-large-en-v1.5 or multilingual-e5-large-instruct?

At 4-bit, bge-large-en-v1.5 fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour and multilingual-e5-large-instruct on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use bge-large-en-v1.5 commercially?

Yes. bge-large-en-v1.5 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 multilingual-e5-large-instruct commercially?

Yes. multilingual-e5-large-instruct 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.

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