# multilingual-e5-large vs w2v-bert-2.0: Specs, License, GPU Cost Source: https://savrn.com/models/compare/multilingual-e5-large-vs-w2v-bert-2-0 Markdown alternate of the page above; the site index is https://savrn.com/llms.txt --- | Field | [multilingual-e5-large](https://savrn.com/models/multilingual-e5-large) intfloat/multilingual-e5-large | [w2v-bert-2.0](https://savrn.com/models/w2v-bert-2-0) facebook/w2v-bert-2.0 | | --- | --- | --- | | Publisher | Liang Wang | AI at Meta | | Task | Feature extraction | Feature extraction | | Modality | Text | Text | | Parameters, as reported | 560M parameters | 580M parameters | | Architecture | XLMRobertaModel | Wav2Vec2BertModel | | Library | sentence-transformers | transformers | | Context length | 514 tokens | Not stated | | Repository size | 9.6 GB | 4.7 GB | | Artifact formats | safetensors, onnx, openvino, pytorch | safetensors | | License | mit | mit | | Access | Open weights, no gate | Open weights, no gate | | Memory at 16-bit (weights and margin) | 1.3 GB | 1.4 GB | | Cheapest GPUs at 16-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | | Memory at 4-bit (weights and margin) | 0.3 GB | 0.3 GB | | Cheapest GPUs at 4-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | | Revision viewed | 3d7cfbdacd47 | da985ba0987f | | Downloads reported by the hub | 6.5M | 1.1M | | Last observed | 2026-10-24 | 2026-10-24 | 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. ### multilingual-e5-large | Benchmark | Conditions | Result | Reported by | Revision | Date | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightAopsRetrievalMetric BrightAopsRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 7.217 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightAopsRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightAopsRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 7.217 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightBiologyLongRetrievalMetric BrightBiologyLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 1.942 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightBiologyLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightBiologyLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 1.942 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightBiologyRetrievalMetric BrightBiologyRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 1.736 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightBiologyRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightBiologyRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 1.736 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightEarthScienceLongRetrievalMetric BrightEarthScienceLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 21.552 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightEarthScienceLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightEarthScienceLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 21.552 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightEarthScienceRetrievalMetric BrightEarthScienceRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 15.063 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightEarthScienceRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightEarthScienceRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 15.063 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightEconomicsLongRetrievalMetric BrightEconomicsLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 13.592 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightEconomicsLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightEconomicsLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 13.592 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightEconomicsRetrievalMetric BrightEconomicsRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 7.057 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightEconomicsRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightEconomicsRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 7.057 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightLeetcodeRetrievalMetric BrightLeetcodeRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 27.872 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightLeetcodeRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightLeetcodeRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 27.872 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightPonyLongRetrievalMetric BrightPonyLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 2.344 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightPonyLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightPonyLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 2.344 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightPonyRetrievalMetric BrightPonyRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 13.022 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightPonyRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightPonyRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 13.022 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightPsychologyLongRetrievalMetric BrightPsychologyLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 5.941 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightPsychologyLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightPsychologyLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 5.941 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightPsychologyRetrievalMetric BrightPsychologyRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 8.789 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightPsychologyRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightPsychologyRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 8.789 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightRoboticsLongRetrievalMetric BrightRoboticsLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 7.921 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightRoboticsLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightRoboticsLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 7.921 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightRoboticsRetrievalMetric BrightRoboticsRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 11.119 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightRoboticsRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightRoboticsRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 11.119 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightStackoverflowLongRetrievalMetric BrightStackoverflowLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 15.812 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightStackoverflowLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightStackoverflowLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 15.812 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightStackoverflowRetrievalMetric BrightStackoverflowRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 6.941 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightStackoverflowRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightStackoverflowRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 6.941 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightSustainableLivingLongRetrievalMetric BrightSustainableLivingLongRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 8.102 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightSustainableLivingLongRetrieval_default_longMetric BrightSustainableLivingLongRetrieval_default_longSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 8.102 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightSustainableLivingRetrievalMetric BrightSustainableLivingRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 9.609 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightSustainableLivingRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightSustainableLivingRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 9.609 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightTheoremQAQuestionsRetrievalMetric BrightTheoremQAQuestionsRetrievalSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 12.958 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/BRIGHT | Task BrightTheoremQAQuestionsRetrieval_default_standardMetric BrightTheoremQAQuestionsRetrieval_default_standardSetup Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12Comparison conditions not established | 12.958 | [Obtained using MTEB v2.10.12](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-03-31 | | mteb/arguana | Task ArguAnaMetric ArguAnaSetup Obtained using MTEB v1.36.26Comparison conditions not established | 54.357 | [Obtained using MTEB v1.36.26](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-04-02 | | mteb/arguana | Task ArguAna_default_testMetric ArguAna_default_testSetup Obtained using MTEB v1.36.26Comparison conditions not established | 54.357 | [Obtained using MTEB v1.36.26](https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb/) Reported by a third party | Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-04-02 | ## SAVRN's Notes on multilingual-e5-large Search indexes are where this one earns its keep. It turns text into 1,024-wide vectors in the 100 languages it inherits from xlm-roberta-large. At 16-bit the weights are 1.1 GB and it needs 1.3 GB to run, under one percent of the 192 GB on the cheapest setup we list, one MI300X at $1.85 an hour on demand. It will never pick your hardware; park it beside the generation model on the card and size by passages embedded per hour. MIT permits commercial use, modification and redistribution as long as the copyright and permission notices ride along. The window is 514 tokens, so longer documents need chunking first. The publisher says low-resource languages among the 100 may degrade, so test your own language mix before committing an index. The download is 9.6 GB across 44 files in four formats; pull only the format your stack reads. SAVRN Research, 2026-09-18 ## SAVRN's Notes on w2v-bert-2.0 580M parameters producing speech representations rather than transcripts: the page classifies it as feature extraction, the front end you fine-tune or probe for downstream speech tasks. Published weights are 4.7 GB of float32 in pt and safetensors — 1.4 GB at 16-bit, 0.7 GB at 8-bit, 0.3 GB at 4-bit — with a cheapest listed setup of one MI300X at $1.85 an hour. Downloads run 1.8M a month. MIT permits commercial use with notices kept. It is the multilingual w2v-BERT generation described by arXiv:2312.05187, its disclosed language list opening at Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese and Azerbaijani. The real question is whether you still want a feature extractor: end-to-end recognizers like Qwen3-ASR-1.7B on this list cover most transcription needs, leaving w2v-bert-2.0 for custom head training and speech research. Validate on your own data either way. SAVRN Research ## Questions ### Which is larger, multilingual-e5-large or w2v-bert-2.0? w2v-bert-2.0 (580M parameters) is larger than multilingual-e5-large (560M parameters), by the parameter counts their publishers report. ### Which is cheaper to run, multilingual-e5-large or w2v-bert-2.0? At 4-bit, multilingual-e5-large fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour and w2v-bert-2.0 on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists. ### Can I use multilingual-e5-large commercially? Yes. multilingual-e5-large 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 w2v-bert-2.0 commercially? Yes. w2v-bert-2.0 is released under MIT License. The MIT License is a short permissive license. 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