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nomic-embed-text-v1

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140 M

Context

8,192

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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS 1 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	f32	0.5 GB	1.1 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Specifications

Architecture: NomicBertModel
Parameters: 140 M
Tensor type: F32
Context length: 8,192
Vocabulary: 30,528
Layers / heads: 12 / 12
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2024-01-31
Training datasets: undisclosed
MTEB ArguAna (reported): 61.451
MTEB BIOSSES (reported): 86.912221317777
MTEB ArxivClusteringP2P (reported): 45.930344947515
MTEB ArxivClusteringS2S (reported): 36.645794800543
MTEB BiorxivClusteringP2P (reported): 38.489535619745
MTEB BiorxivClusteringS2S (reported): 32.759958575101
MTEB AskUbuntuDupQuestions (reported): 75.044848964517
MTEB Banking77Classification (reported): 84.476574569506
MTEB CQADupstackAndroidRetrieval (reported): 30.008
MTEB AmazonPolarityClassification (reported): 91.503420774596
MTEB AmazonReviewsClassification (en) (reported): 46.727080809228
MTEB AmazonCounterfactualClassification (en) (reported): 71.016346555125
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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all-MiniLM-L6-v2 257.8 M paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 59.4 M bge-m3 35.0 M all-mpnet-base-v2 25.2 M nomic-embed-text-v1.5 15.7 M multilingual-e5-small 15.6 M

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