all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs bm25

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
Qdrant · B
Params
Context
30d
1.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 bm25
Parameters 20 M
Architecture BertModel
Context length 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 18
Downloads 30d 252,170,882 1,048,277
Downloads all time 3.9 B 9.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-06-13

Download trend

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

259.7 M926 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 bm25

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

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