Who should use Bge Small En?

Bge Small En is an open-source project built for NLP developers and researchers.

Does Bge Small En have a free plan?

Yes — Bge Small En is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.

What platforms does Bge Small En run on?

Bge Small En runs on the web, the command line, and API.

Is Bge Small En still maintained?

Unverified. Bge Small En has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.

What are alternatives to Bge Small En?

Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Bge Small En, Bge Large En, and Bge Large En.

Who makes Bge Small En?

Bge Small En is developed by BAAI.

When did Bge Small En launch?

Bge Small En first shipped in 2023.

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Bge Small En

Name: Bge Small En
Author: BAAI

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BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 is a lightweight, open-source model for generating English text embeddings. It is optimized for efficiency and suitable for sentence similarity and semantic search tasks in resource-constrained environments. Designed for NLP developers and researchers.

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Overview

5 features

Bge Small En sits in PulseGate's Foundation models & chat category. It focuses on providing efficient English text embeddings for NLP applications with limited resources. Bge Small En is an open-source project aimed at NLP developers and researchers. Bge Small En is open source under the Open Source license. It ships for the web, the command line, and API.

BAAI builds and maintains Bge Small En, and it first shipped in 2023. Among its 5 catalogued features are text embeddings, sentence similarity, and lightweight model.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

Text embeddings
Sentence similarity
Lightweight model
English language support
Python integration

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Hosting

AWS

Runs on

BrowserCLIAPI-only

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AWS: x-amz-cf-id header · x-amz-cf-pop header · via header

Trust & compliance

License

Open Source

Verified signals

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Indexing history

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Indexed19 Jul · 19:17 UTC
BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 verified against its public source
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Frequently asked questions about Bge Small En

What is Bge Small En?: Bge Small En focuses on providing efficient English text embeddings for NLP applications with limited resources. It is catalogued under Foundation models & chat on PulseGate.
Who should use Bge Small En?: Bge Small En is an open-source project built for NLP developers and researchers.
Does Bge Small En have a free plan?: Yes — Bge Small En is open source under the Open Source license and free to use.
What platforms does Bge Small En run on?: Bge Small En runs on the web, the command line, and API.
Is Bge Small En still maintained?: Unverified. Bge Small En has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What are alternatives to Bge Small En?: Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Bge Small En, Bge Large En, and Bge Large En.Bge Small En Bge Large En Bge Large En
Who makes Bge Small En?: Bge Small En is developed by BAAI.
When did Bge Small En launch?: Bge Small En first shipped in 2023.

At a glance

Pricing: Open Source
Platforms: Web
Languages: English
License: Open Source
Built for: NLP developers and researchers
Model: Open source
Solves: Providing efficient English text embeddings for NLP applications with limited resources.

Registered as

Hugging Face: BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5

Developer

BAAI

Index record

Indexed: 19 Jul 2026
Lifecycle: Alive
Last seen: 19 Jul 2026

Identity audit (12)

Slug: baai-bge-small-en-v1-5-huggingface-co
Lifecycle last checked: 8 Aug 2026
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 19 Jul 2026
Timeline basis: Indexed-at chronology. This listing's first-seen date was written by the catalog backfill, not observed here, so it is not treated as a sighting.
Name from: Derived from the project's own page and URL.
Category from: Derived from the model's own Hugging Face metadata.
Summary from: Written by a language model from public pages.
Languages from: Detected by a language model from page content.
Canonical URL: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5

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