all-MiniLM-L6-v2 vs nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF

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
nomic-ai · B · Open weights
Params
140 M
Context
2,048
30d
538 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification all-MiniLM-L6-v2 nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF
Parameters 20 M 140 M
Architecture BertModel —
Context length 512 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 193,424,443 538,242
Downloads all time 4.1 B 2.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-02-14

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

259.7 M375 K
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF

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
nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF · Q4_0 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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