all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

sentence-transformers · A
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
257.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
sentence-transformers · B
Params
130 M
Context
512
30d
1.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1
Parameters 20 M 130 M
Architecture BertModel DistilBertModel
Context length 512 512
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 14
Downloads 30d 257,806,986 1,012,092
Downloads all time 3.5 B 25.1 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

259.6 M1.0 M
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-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
distiluse-base-multilingual-cased-v1 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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