all-MiniLM-L12-v2 vs LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 8 November 2026.

sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
30 M
Context
512
30d
2.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
McGill-NLP · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
8,192
30d
396 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L12-v2 LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp
Parameters 30 M 8.0 B
Architecture BertModel LlamaEncoderModel
Context length 512 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 2,479,152 396,165
Downloads all time 258.2 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-04-30

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

4.2 M377 K
all-MiniLM-L12-v2 LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

all-MiniLM-L12-v2 · fp16 0.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
LLM2Vec-Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-mntp · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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