all-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs e5-small-v2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
sentence-transformers · A
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
4.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | all-MiniLM-L12-v2 | e5-small-v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 30 M | 30 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,196,036 | 558,242 |
| Downloads all time | 253.7 M | 19.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2023-05-19 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
4.2 M513 K
all-MiniLM-L12-v2
e5-small-v2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
all-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB
e5-small-v2 · fp16
0.7 GB / 24 GB