all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs bge-m3
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
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | bge-m3 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 20 M | — |
| Architecture | BertModel | XLMRobertaModel |
| Context length | 512 | 8,192 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 218,138,134 | 32,530,460 |
| Downloads all time | 4.1 B | 336.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | — |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2024-01-27 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 80 days (28 Jul – 15 Oct)
259.7 M32.2 M
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
bge-m3
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB