Model reference · open weights
sentence-transformers-e5-large is an open-weight embedding model from embaas. sentence-transformers-e5-large-v2 (BF16) weighs 1.3 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
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Summary of the embaas/sentence-transformers-e5-large-v2 model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | embaas |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-05-29 |
| VRAM | 1.3 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Runs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
This is a the sentence-transformers version of the intfloat/e5-large-v2 model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 1024 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.
Using this model becomes easy when you have sentence-transformers installed:
pip install -U sentence-transformers
Then you can use the model like this:
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
sentences = ["This is an example sentence", "Each sentence is converted"]
model = SentenceTransformer('embaas/sentence-transformers-e5-large-v2')
embeddings = model.encode(sentences)
print(embeddings)
You can use the embaas API to encode your input. Get your free API key from embaas.io
import requests
url = "https://api.embaas.io/v1/embeddings/"
headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": "Bearer ${YOUR_API_KEY}"
}
data = {
"texts": ["This is an example sentence.", "Here is another sentence."],
"instruction": "query"
"model": "e5-large-v2"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=data, headers=headers)
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SentenceTransformer(
(0): Transformer({'max_seq_length': 512, 'do_lower_case': False}) with Transformer model: BertModel
(1): Pooling({'word_embedding_dimension': 1024, 'pooling_mode_cls_token': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_tokens': True, 'pooling_mode_max_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_mean_sqrt_len_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_weightedmean_tokens': False, 'pooling_mode_lasttoken': False})
(2): Normalize()
)
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.