all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs gte-base-en-v1.5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
193.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Alibaba-NLP · B · Open weights
Params
137 M
Context
8,192
30d
458 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | gte-base-en-v1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 20 M | 137 M |
| Architecture | BertModel | NewModel |
| Context length | 512 | 8,192 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 193,424,443 | 458,305 |
| Downloads all time | 4.1 B | 20.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2024-04-20 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
259.7 M399 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
gte-base-en-v1.5
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 · fp16
0.6 GB / 24 GB
gte-base-en-v1.5 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB