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Q: What is this model?

vectoriseai/e5-base is an embedding model for sentence similarity and retrieval published by vectoriseai, added to Hugging Bay Sep 25, 2026. Model from Hugging Face for sentence similarity: vectoriseai/e5-base · sentence transformers

Q: Can I use it commercially?

It is released under the mit license. Commercial use is allowed. Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted.

Q: How big is it?

Hosted here: 8 files, 438.4 MB. Full repo upstream: 1.42 GB. The recommended download, model.safetensors, is 438 MB.

Q: What can I download here?

Hosted here: 8 files, 438.4 MB. Full repo upstream: 1.42 GB. The original release is at https://huggingface.co/vectoriseai/e5-base.

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Model details

sentence similarity and retrievalLicense: mitSHA-256 recorded for 11 of 15 filessafetensors · ONNX · BIN

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Listed for comparing sentences; for developers building text similarity tools. Catalog sources: license, cardMetadata.license, task, cardMetadata.pipelineTag.

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