all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs all-mpnet-base-v2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 15 October 2026.

sentence-transformers · A
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
218.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
18.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 all-mpnet-base-v2
Parameters 20 M 110 M
Architecture BertModel MPNetForMaskedLM
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 218,138,134 18,064,033
Downloads all time 4.1 B 1.4 B
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 80 days (28 Jul – 15 Oct)

259.7 M18.0 M
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 all-mpnet-base-v2

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-mpnet-base-v2 · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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