all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs all-distilroberta-v1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

sentence-transformers · A
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
252.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B
Params
80 M
Context
512
30d
2.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 all-distilroberta-v1
Parameters 20 M 80 M
Architecture BertModel RobertaForMaskedLM
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 252,170,882 2,741,209
Downloads all time 3.9 B 45.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

259.7 M2.2 M
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 all-distilroberta-v1

VRAM side by side

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

all-MiniLM-L6-v2 · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
all-distilroberta-v1 · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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