all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct

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
Alibaba-NLP · B
Params
1.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
665 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct
Parameters 20 M 1.8 B
Architecture BertModel Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 512 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 252,170,882 664,667
Downloads all time 3.9 B 7.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-06-29

Download trend

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

259.7 M665 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 gte-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct

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-Qwen2-1.5B-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 12.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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