BGE Small EN is Baai's embedding model. A compact English text embedding model from BAAI designed for efficient sentence similarity and semantic retrieval.
Specifications
Canonical IDbaai-bge-small-en
TypeEmbedding
StatusActive
CreatorBaai
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesEmbedding

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding✓
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
BGE 1.5 Large ZH————Available
BGE Large EN V1.5—512$0.204—Available
BGE Small EN V1.5—512$0.020—Available
BGE Small EN————Current
BGE Base EN————Available
BGE Large EN————Available
BGE Reranker Base——$0.003—Available
BGE-M3 Multi————Available
BGE-M3 Multi 8K————Available

Model IDs

baai-bge-small-en
huggingface-sentencesimilarity-bge-small-en