all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
177.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
datasocietyco · B · Open weights
Params
110 M
Context
512
30d
2.9 M
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 20 M | 110 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | BertModel |
| Context length | 512 | 512 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 177,602,109 | 2,895,119 |
| Downloads all time | 4.2 B | 19.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2025-01-09 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
259.7 M2.5 M
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 · fp16
1.0 GB / 24 GB