# BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5

> Source: <https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5>
> Published: 2026-07-07 00:00:00+00:00

# BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5

BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5: Small BGE English embedding model that is practical for local retrieval and agent memory. License: mit. external huggingface metadata. Scan: pending.

- License
- mit
- Size
- 130.0 MB
- Demand
- 500 upstream downloads
- Trust
- Needs review 0/100
- Trusted download
- External metadata; mirror requestable
- Run fit
- Easy local embedding fit: CPU, Apple Silicon, or a small consumer GPU is usually enough for smoke tests
- Files
- 0 hosted / 1 total
- Scan status
- pending
- Hosting status
- external
- Upstream
- BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
- Declared license
- mit
- Pipeline
- feature-extraction
- Library
- SentenceTransformers
- Task categories
- feature-extraction

## About this artifact

BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 is included in Hugging Bay's compact resilience fallback for high-demand open AI artifacts. Live Postgres metadata, hosted files, hashes, and reviews take precedence whenever available.

## Trusted download

External metadata; mirror requestable. Use upstream for now or add demand for a reviewed Hugging Bay mirror.

- Hosted files
- 0 of 1
- Reviewed peer-assisted fallbacks
- 0
- Download plan
[Download-plan JSON](/api/artifacts/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5/download-plan)- Trust bundle
[Trust-bundle JSON](/api/trust-bundles/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5)- Review summary
[Review-summary JSON](/api/artifacts/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5/review-summary)- Distribution
[Reviewed peer-fallback JSON](/api/artifacts/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5/distribution)

## Can I run this?

Easy local embedding fit. CPU, Apple Silicon, or a small consumer GPU is usually enough for smoke tests. Start with the local kit, verify hashes, then run a small inference or embedding check before production use.

- Estimated footprint
- 130.0 MB
- Suggested runners
- Transformers
- Runtime files
- 0
- Local kit
[Local run kit](/local-kit/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5)

Run-fit warnings: No runtime weight file is indexed yet.; Hugging Bay is showing metadata only until reviewed hosted files exist.

- License: pass - mit
- Provenance: pass - BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
- Scan: warn - pending
- Hosted files: warn - external metadata only
- Signed manifest: fail - not final yet
- Community: warn - no reviews yet
- Benchmarks: warn - no benchmark evidence

## Machine-readable card

[Open interactive artifact page](/#/artifact/hf-model-baai-bge-small-en-v1-5)