all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs gte-large-en-v1.5

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
Alibaba-NLP · B
Params
430 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 gte-large-en-v1.5
Parameters 20 M 430 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 257,806,986 1,725,442
Downloads all time 3.5 B 55.9 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

259.6 M1.7 M
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 gte-large-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
✅ Runs comfortably
gte-large-en-v1.5 · fp16 2.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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