all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs gte-multilingual-base

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

sentence-transformers · A · Open weights
Params
20 M
Context
512
30d
177.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Alibaba-NLP · B · Open weights
Params
310 M
Context
8,192
30d
883 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 gte-multilingual-base
Parameters 20 M 310 M
Architecture BertModel NewModel
Context length 512 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 75
Downloads 30d 177,602,109 882,931
Downloads all time 4.2 B 33.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-07-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

259.7 M880 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 gte-multilingual-base

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-multilingual-base · fp16 1.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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