Run BGE-M3 on a VPS.
Prices checked
The cheapest VPS that runs BGE-M3 is OVHcloud VPS-1 2027 at $5.02 a month, with 4 GB of RAM for the 2.6 GB it needs, checked .
Best plans for BGE-M3
Cheapest first, among plans that fit.
- 1
VPS-1 2027 · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · EU
OVHcloud · 2C · 4 GB · 40 GB NVMe$5.02/mo - 2
VPS 1 · 4 vCPU / 6 GB · Europe
Leaseweb · 4C · 6 GB · 100 GB NVMe$5.02/mo - 3
VPS-1 2027 · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · US
OVHcloud · 2C · 4 GB · 40 GB NVMe$5.35/mo - 4
VPS 1 · 4 vCPU / 6 GB · UK
Leaseweb · 4C · 6 GB · 100 GB NVMe$6.02/mo - 5$6.13/mo
- 6
VPS-1 LZ 2027 · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · EU
OVHcloud · 2C · 4 GB · 40 GB NVMe$6.13/mo
Hetzner · 2C · 4 GB · 40 GB NVMeWhat it needs
RAM needed
2.6 GB
CPU inference at native format
Weights
1.1 GB
native format
OS and runtime
1.5 GB
headroom
Multilingual dense + sparse embeddings for hybrid search.
- Size
- 0.568B parameters
- Context
- 8K tokens
- Kind
- embedding
- Released
- 2024-01
- License
- MIT
Facts from Hugging Face: sizes from bits per weight, 29,675,435 downloads.
Or rent a GPU
every GPU price1 provider rents the RTX A5000, with 24 GB of GPU memory against the 2.6 GB BGE-M3 needs.
Cheapest board that fits
RTX A5000
24 GB of GPU memory
On demand
$0.16per GPU an hour
RunPod
Held for a month
$116.80
730 hours of RTX A5000 · Community Cloud
How we count
On a CPU-only VPS BGE-M3 needs about 2.6 GB of RAM: 1.1 GB of weights in the model's native format and 1.5 GB for the OS and runtime. 308 of the 527 plans in the index fit and include a disk. A plan runs it comfortably with 20% headroom over the total, and is a tight fit with exactly enough.
A GPU rate is per GPU for an hour, and the monthly figure is 730 hours of the whole instance at it, tax excluded.
Frequently asked
- How much RAM does BGE-M3 need?
- About 2.6 GB for CPU inference at Q4_K_M: 1.1 GB of weights, 0 MB of KV cache at 8,192 tokens of context, and 1.5 GB of headroom. Longer contexts need more KV cache (0 KB per token for this model).
- What is the cheapest VPS that can run BGE-M3?
- OVHcloud VPS-1 2027 · 2 vCPU / 4 GB · EU (4 GB RAM, 2 vCPU) at $5.02/mo excl. VAT runs it comfortably as of 31 Oct 2026.
- How fast will BGE-M3 run on a VPS without a GPU?
- Embedding models are small and run well on CPUs. Throughput scales with vCPUs rather than RAM.
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